US student gets residency permit

GARDA immigration officials have backed down on a decision not to grant a visa to a US postgraduate student because her son was attending primary school here.

Erin Britton has been studying at NUI Galway for the past year and planned to complete a second year in her Master’s degree in medieval studies.

Her son Aidan, four, started junior infants in September in the Claddagh National School in Galway.