A fifth-year pupil at a Cork school who has received a last-minute reprieve from deportation has spoken of his dream of playing cricket for Ireland.

The principle of a school where three Saudi-born children are to be deported has blasted the decision to remove them from the country as “immoral”.

Disturbing evidence was given in court of thick blood being smeared onto a garda’s face as a man was jailed for 11 months.