School deportations ‘terrorising pupils’

THE deportation of students and searches of schools for failed asylum seekers is terrorising young people and harming international views of Ireland, a teachers’ leader warned last night.

Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) president Austin Corcoran made his protest against the forcible deportation of school children at the opening of the union's annual congress in Galway.

His comments were made in the wake of last week's decision by Justice Minister Michael McDowell after a public outcry to allow deported Nigerian student Olunkunle Elunkanlo return to sit his Leaving Cert at Palmerstown College, Dublin.