Woman and child may be deported

A Nigerian woman and her eight-year-old Irish-born child could face deportation after the High Court yesterday lifted an injunction preventing the State sending the pair out of the country.

The woman, who hid from the authorities for almost five years after deportation orders had been issued, cannot be identified for legal reasons.

Mr Justice Richard Humphreys yesterday placed a four-week stay on the injunction discharge order so the mother and child can “pursue any consequential orders” and “put their affairs in order”.