Ruling could see children expelled from country

THOUSANDS of Irish-born children could face expulsion from the country following a Supreme Court ruling that their asylum-seeking parents have no automatic right to stay here.

The Government now has to decide whether to apply the ruling only to future arrivals or to families already granted permission to live here because of an Irish-born child and those awaiting a decision on their application to stay.

It also has to decide what it will do if parents deported as a result of the ruling leave their Irish-born children here.