Deported boy taken from playschool

CHILDREN attending a playschool near Killarney were upset when immigration officials took away a three-year-old Nigerian boy for deportation, a parents’ representative said yesterday.

Geradina Hartnett, parents' liaison officer, Muckross Community Play-school, said the officials arrived with the boy's mother on March 14 and removed him from the playschool where he had been involved in preparations for the St Patrick's Day parade.

Both the boy and his mother were deported later that day with up to 40 others to Lagos.