A Nigerian mother and her two young children are to be deported from Dublin later today.

Solicitors for the Agbonlahor family will lodge a last-minute application for an injunction to stop their deportation this morning.

The Minister for Justice Brian Lenihan has said he will not over-rule his predecessor's decision to deport a Nigerian woman and her twins.

The solicitor for a Nigerian family facing deportation next month is accusing the Department of Justice of harbouring an anti-immigrant culture.