Irish woman detained for 27 hours at airport

THE GOVERNMENT is investigating the circumstances surrounding the unwarranted detention of an Irish woman at Budapest airport for 27 hours last week.

Sorina Selaru, a 41-year-old mother of two, from Ballincollig, Co Cork, was kept under armed guard last Tuesday after passport control at Budapest refused to allow her board her flight to Dublin.

“All night I was kept sitting on a plastic chair. I couldn’t sleep at all. I didn’t have anything to eat or drink. They are still practicing the same abuses that the former Communist countries did for so long,” she said.