Billy Kelleher wants Government to pay legal bill for Emma DeSouza's citizenship challenge

Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher wants the Government pay the legal bill for an Irish woman who took on the British government over citizenship rights. Picture:Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher has written to Michael McGrath requesting that the Irish government pay the legal bill for an Irish woman who took on the British government over citizenship rights.

Emma DeSouza, from Co. Derry, had applied for a residence card for her American husband Jake to live and work in Northern Ireland in 2015.