STUDENTS, politicians, trade union officials and anti-racism campaigners yesterday gathered outside the Dáil to support the case of an asylum-seeker family facing deportation.

STUDENTS, politicians, trade union officials and anti-racism campaigners last night gathered outside the Dáil to support the case of a hospitalised asylum seeker and her five children.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has said he will not intervene to prevent a single mother in hospital and her five children from being deported to Nigeria.

AS thousands of successful Leaving Cert students weighed up their job and college prospects yesterday, one teenager was facing an uncertain future.