All we want for Christmas is our dad

TWO Kerry children have only one request to Santa this Christmas - bring our daddy home.

All we want for Christmas is our dad

Language school director Gerard Deasy has been detained in China for the past eight weeks arising from a dispute over the eligibility of a number of students who were planning to come to Ireland to study.

His wife, Teresa, and daughters, Tara, six, Sinéad, four, are anxiously waiting at their home in Tralee, while the Department of Foreign Affairs tries to get the Chinese authorities to release him.

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