Turtle Bunbury is inviting you into his family’s stately home, Lisnavagh House, for a one-of-a-kind history festival,says Arlene Harris

LIVIA’S WAKE might be worth waiting for in tonight’s finale on another eight-race card at Dundalk, the Irish Stallion Farms Fillies Maiden.

LEADING British trainer Mark Johnston gave Dundalk a strong thumbs-up after watching his Below Zero make all to land the Bar One Racing Handicap over six furlongs at the County Louth track yesterday.

AN asylum seeker who fought a lengthy legal battle to avoid deportation has been returned to Nigeria after the collapse of her case over allegations of fraudulent statements and the use of forged documents.

Pamela Izevbekhai and her daughters have been deported from Ireland, bringing to an end a six-year legal battle to stay in the country.

WILLIE MULLINS, following on a tremendous National Hunt campaign, has had a quiet summer so far but is fancied to strike at Leopardstown tonight with Johnny McGeeney in the RSM Farrell Grant Sparks Maiden for amateur riders.

In Safe Hands

A GRIEVING son who lost his mother to cancer and a young woman whose baby died when he was just a day old were among the 10,000 participants in the four-mile Evening Echo Women’s Mini Marathon in Cork yesterday.

Kelly Brook is to star in teen drama ‘Skins’.

PAMELA IZEVBEKHAI will take her bid to stay in Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights after the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed her attempt to appeal her deportation.

Mother of three Pamela Izevbekhai has lost her Supreme Court fight to stay in Ireland.

LAWYERS for a Nigerian mother-of-two fighting deportation are expected to tell the Supreme Court today that they have obtained documents which support her bid to remain here.

A NIGERIAN mother and her two daughters fighting deportation have received death threats warning the family will be shot dead if they remain in Ireland.

THE High Court has dismissed a legal challenge aimed at preventing the deportation of a Nigerian woman who claims her two daughters are at risk of serious harm due to female genital mutilation (FGM) if returned to Nigeria.

AMNESTY International Ireland and the Irish Refugee Council have urged Justice Minister Dermot Ahern to let Pamela Izevbekhai and her two young daughters stay in Ireland.

Amnesty International tonight pleaded with Justice Minister Dermot Ahern to reconsider deporting a Nigerian woman from Ireland over fears her daughters would suffer genital mutilation.

The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge aimed at preventing the deportation of a Nigerian woman who claims her two young daughters are at risk of serious harm due to female genital mutilation (FGM) if returned to Nigeria.

A Nigerian woman who claims her two young daughters are at risk of serious harm due to female genital mutilation (FGM) if the family is deported has commenced her latest legal challenge in a bid to prevent her and her family being returned to Nigeria.

A NIGERIAN mother facing deportation has visited the Oireachtas to plead for Justice Minister Dermot Ahern to reconsider her request for asylum.

A JUDGE who refused to stop a deportation order against a Nigerian mother, who fears her two daughters are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM), yesterday agreed to disqualify himself from hearing separate judicial review proceedings also taken by the woman following an application from her lawyers.

WE write as a concerned mother and daughter in relation to the Government’s decision in the Izevbekhai case (November 19/December 11).

A NIGERIAN woman facing deportation is to be allowed to stay in Ireland for the moment until a full case on her deportation can be heard.

GROUPS working to end female genital mutilation (FGM) have urged the Government to introduce laws specifically outlawing the practice.

The European Court of Human Rights has formally asked the Government not to deport a Nigerian woman and her two young daughters to Nigeria until it has considered her arguments against the deportation orders, including that her two daughters face a real risk of female genital mutilation if returned.

FORMER president Mary Robinson has expressed concern over the fate of a mother fighting deportation to her native Nigeria where she believes her two young daughters will suffer female genital mutilation.

A NIGERIAN woman, who believes her two daughters are at risk of serious harm due to female genital mutilation (FGM) if the family is deported to Nigeria, has appealed to the High Court to prevent their deportation until their latest legal challenge has been determined.

Sadie Frost today said she was “deeply upset” that her fashion label has been drawn into a race row.

Campaigners fighting the deportation of a Nigerian mother of two said this afternoon that they believed the Minister for Justice had already rejected her appeal for protection.

A Nigerian woman and her two children are facing deportation to their homeland today after losing their legal battle to remain in Ireland.

A LENGTHY legal battle by a Nigerian woman to prevent the deportation of herself and her two daughters on grounds of fear of female genital mutilation in Nigeria ended in failure at the High Court yesterday when it upheld the deportation orders.

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted last night he been assured by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf that his country could hold “credible” elections next month.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown today urged Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf to ensure “transparent, credible” elections in his country next month.

Hugh Grant and Jemima Khan have separated, his agent confirmed.

Hugh Grant admitted to not being the romantic type – at the premiere of his new romantic comedy.

A Nigerian woman who fears her two daughters will be circumcised if deported to Nigeria must be allowed to stay in Ireland, it was claimed tonight.

Supermodel Cindy Crawford is back on the cover of British Vogue for the first time in 10 years.

Hugh Grant is reportedly planning a move to America - because he's furious about Britain's obsession with his flourishing Jemima Khan romance.

Hollywood star Hugh Grant's romance with Jemima Khan has become so intense, friends are convinced they will marry.

Actor Hugh Grant has raised suspicions about a future wedding by taking his socialite lover Jemima Khan home to meet his father.

Hugh Grant has been spotted out and about with newly single socialite Jemima Kahn, further fuelling rumours the pair are an item.

BRITISH socialite Jemima Khan and Pakistani cricket legend Imran Khan have divorced, it was confirmed yesterday.

Pakistan’s most famous couple, cricket legend Imran Khan and his beautiful British socialite wife Jemima, have divorced, Khan announced today.

Cricket star Imran Khan today said he would welcome daughter Tyrian into his home following the death of her mother.