Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that the 45-year-old obtained citizenship for herself, her husband and her children after she provided false information to the State.

Aaron O’Brien (19), of Innishannon Road, Fair Hill, Cork, tried to use his friend's passport to board a US-bound flight

Carney obtained Irish citizenship in the late 1980s.

The child’s mother had subsidiary protection at the time of his birth and has since had this protection renewed.