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.

OPPOSITION party leaders joined the growing campaign yesterday to save a Nigerian family of asylum seekers from deportation.