Trio doing time in Ireland ‘impossible’

LEGAL experts yesterday discounted the possibility of the Colombia Three serving their sentence here, as the opposition challenged the Taoiseach to say whether he supported the idea.

Under the plan, Colombia would be required to sign up to a European Council Convention on the transfer of prisoners and be accepted by Ireland as an acceptable country from a human rights point of view.

But Irish Council for Civil Liberties director Ashling Reidy said she “very much doubted” the move would prove feasible given that Irish legislation to ratify parts of the convention had not even been passed yet.