A judge has cleared the way for a High Court challenge by a Belarusian man refused naturalisation over an apparent passport glitch.

A RUSSIAN man who sailed for up to five weeks around the Atlantic on a stolen yacht has applied for asylum after being rescued off the Irish coast.

A CHINESE student recovering from a heart transplant was yesterday given an eleventh-hour reprieve after gardaí made a u-turn on deporting him.

A NIGERIAN delegation to a conference on the trafficking of women and children yesterday criticised gardaí after they snubbed the event.