Homeless couple lose bid for return of child

A homeless couple have lost a High Court bid to have the custody of their prematurely-born baby returned to them after he has received medical treatment and is discharged from hospital.

Colman Fitzgerald, counsel for the baby’s parents, told Mr Justice Michael Peart it was not the couple’s intention to bring up their child “in some doorway”.

Mr Fitzgerald, who appeared with Máiréad Carey, said the couple had arranged for them and the baby to move in with the child’s grandparents.