Couple go to High Court over refusal to allow them to marry

A couple has brought a legal challenge to a refusal to allow them to marry because it would allegedly be a sham marriage.

Pakistani national, Rana Asad Riaz, and his Romanian fiancee, Diana Badiu, both of Homelawn Drive, Tallaght, Dublin, say they were told there had been an objection to their planned wedding for January 9 last on grounds it would constitute of a marriage of convenience.