Donal Gannon ordered community service over false passport

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Donal Gannon was sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to 240 hours of community service and three years suspended for false passport offences, reported on 15 February 2021. He pleaded guilty to providing false information and documents in a passport application and using a false instrument.

Judge Melanie Greally ordered the community service within 18 months in lieu of the three-year term for the passport application offence. The sentence for using a false instrument was fully suspended on strict conditions.

The application concerned an Irish passport renewed in the name of David O’Brien, who had died in 1986.