A Cork-based Pakistani man with a deportation order hanging over him is in fear for his life.

A demonstration is planned for later today in a bid to stop a Carlow-based student from being sent back to Malawi.

Twenty three people who had been served with Deportation Orders were removed from the State this morning.

Keith Byrne, the Irishman living in the US who was arrested for immigration offences in July and threatened with deportation, says he's hoping for an extension to his temporary release.

The data, released by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency today, shows that this was an almost 40% increase on 2017 when 34 Irish people were deported.

DCU Students' Union is calling on Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan to revoke a deportation order against one of its fellow students.

A Filipino woman who worked mainly as a carer for elderly people after coming here in 2005 has lost her challenge to a deportation order.

Boston Irish businessman and former chairperson of Boston Northeast GAA club, John Cunningham, has been deported from the US, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have confirmed.

A man’s claim that gardai had no power to stop and arrest him for breach of a deportation order while he was driving his car has been dismissed as "defying logic" by the Court of Appeal.

An airline passenger who was being deported from Britain by immigration officials has been filmed shouting and crying for help.

The case of one woman who was suddenly taken away from her family illustrates the harsh mood in the US — but has also galvanised resistance to deportations, writes Marcela Valdes.

US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has pledged that America will not enlist its military to enforce immigration laws and that there will be "no mass deportations".

A top White House aide has defended Donald Trump's immigration order and welcomed a surge in deportations from the US.

Gardaí have reportedly deported at least 40 Nigerians on a specially chartered flight that departed from Dublin Airport under cover of darkness last night.

Labour Party MEP Pronsias de Rossa has requested that the European Union review the legality of recent deportations in Ireland.

An anti-racism group is accusing the Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, of failing to run the asylum process in a fair and transparent manner.

The Residents Against Racism organisation has vowed to keep up its campaign for the return of all the Nigerian people deported to their home country by the Government two weeks ago.

The 20-year-old Leaving Cert student who was deported to Nigeria two weeks ago has arrived back in Ireland this morning.

The 20-year-old Leaving Cert student who was deported to Nigeria two weeks ago is due back in Ireland this morning.

The Minister for Justice Michael McDowell is being urged to help reunite the families of two Nigerian women, who were deported from the midlands almost two weeks ago.

A three-year-old schoolboy was one of the 50 people deported to Nigeria last week.

The Government has decided to allow a Leaving Cert student who was deported to Nigeria last week to return for six months to complete his studies.

Friends of a Nigerian Leaving Cert student who was deported from Ireland last week have mounted a protest outside the Dáil today.

Friends of a Nigerian Leaving Cert student who was deported from Ireland last week are due to mount a protest outside the Dáil today.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell has rejected requests for a Leaving Cert student who was deported to Nigeria last week to be allowed to return to Ireland.