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[Stephen Ireland] cited the death of a grandparent - when in fact his girlfriend had suffered a miscarriage.

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'Early on Monday morning I got a phone call from Stephen Staunton telling me that the FAI had discovered my grandmother in Cork was not dead.

'He wanted to know what was going on and I told him that there had been a mistake and it had been my father's mother. I told him her name was Brenda Kitchener, that she lived in London.'

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'On Thursday, I got a phone call from Manchester City stating that the FAI had discovered that my grandmother, Brenda Kitchener, was also alive.

'I decided at that stage that I must tell truth and admit I had told lies.'