THE Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a Nigerian lawyer against his four-year sentence for trafficking illegal immigrants into Ireland.

A NIGERIAN lawyer has lost an appeal against his conviction for trafficking illegal immigrants into Ireland.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a Nigerian lawyer against his conviction for trafficking illegal immigrants into Ireland.

ONE has to wonder exactly what point Declan Harmon (Letters, March 13) is trying to make.

I WISH to congratulate Bertie Ahern and his ministers on their recent pay awards.

SO the Taoiseach dismisses the economic naysayers, stating “you wouldn’t give them a dime going down to the shop”.

A Nigerian lawyer who lives in County Wicklow has been jailed for four years by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for trafficking illegal immigrants into Ireland.

The trial of a man accused of trafficking illegal immigrants into Ireland two years ago has continued in legal argument at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the absence of the jury.

An immigration officer has today told a jury that she refused 14 Mauritian nationals entry into the State because she did not believe they were coming to Ireland for a holiday as they claimed.