Ireland must not even contemplate extraditing grandparents to the US

THE High Court case for the extradition of Tim and Ethel Blake, of Cobh, for kidnapping their grandson Dylan is an outrage.

They had been rearing the boy since his father died before they brought him to the US to see his mother in 1999, after which she refused to allow him to return to Ireland.

Cork Circuit Court granted the Blakes custody of Dylan in January 2001, but his mother refused to deliver Dylan, and the US courts refused to implement the Irish order. The Blakes then tricked their daughter into letting Dylan have dinner with them in July 2004 in Chicago, and they took the boy home to Ireland. But they returned their grandson to his mother in November that year.