Flanagan rules out giving children born in Ireland to non-national parents automatic citizenship after three years

Update 5.35pm: Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has ruled out giving children born in Ireland to non-national parents automatic Irish citizenship after three years, claiming the move "amounts to bad law".

Mr Flanagan rejected the call after Labour said the 2004 citizenship referendum which removed the automatic citizenship right of children born in Ireland to foreign parents must be reversed after a series of child deportation controversies.