New rules will end Irish citizen children’s deportation

REFUGEE groups last night welcomed new measures which will put an end to the deportation of Irish citizen children.

An estimated 11,000 Irish-born children, born to non-national parents in recent years, have been granted Irish citizenship on the basis of having been born here.

However, most of those families have been living in a legal limbo in fear of deportation after a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year rejected such citizenship alone as a proper legal basis for a family to seek permission to remain in Ireland.