US deports 10 Irish immigrants

TEN Irish people returned home yesterday after being thrown out of the United States for violating immigration rules.

The 10, eight female GAA players, their manager and a selector from Boston, touched down at Shannon two weeks after being pulled off a train, threatened with jail and then told they were being deported.

They had been living and working in Boston illegally for periods from four months to five years and cannot return to the US for 10 years after entering on a visa waiver programme allowing Irish citizens a 90 day to visit the country for 90 days but not to work.