Woman admits passport fraud in Cork which calls into question 'integrity of Irish systems'

Cork District Court heard that the offences would have serious repercussions for the Irish birth certificate registration system and the Irish passport system

The woman admitted falsely claiming that an Irish man was the biological father of her son, and three counts of false information in passport applications in 2009, 2012 and 2017. File photo

An investigation into passport fraud which was described as calling into question “the integrity of both the Irish birth certificate registration system and the Irish passport system” resulted in a 44-year-old non-national woman pleading guilty to four fraud charges on Monday.

The woman cannot be identified as it would lead inevitably to the identification of her child which is prohibited in this case under the Children’s Act.