Grandmother of boys abducted by her son appeals court ruling in attempt to keep boys in Egypt

Mandy Kelly with photos of her children Zayn and Kareem, whom she has not seen since March 2022. Picture: Ciara Wilkinson

The grandmother of two children from Ireland abducted by her son has appealed a ruling in the Egyptian courts in a bid to prevent her grandchildren being returned to their Irish mother.

In March 2022, Mandy Kelly’s two children Zayn, who will be seven this month, and Kareem, aged four, from Dundalk, Co Louth, visited their grandmother in Cairo on a family holiday which turned into a "living hell".