A man has failed in a High Court application to have his son brought back to live in Ireland after the mother took the child out of the country in 2015 and failed to return. The courts there have dismissed the father’s application for the boy’s return under the Hague Convention (governing international child abduction). The District Court here made a safety order against the father in 2014 when the mother and child were still here. On Friday, Mr Justice Simons refused the father’s application for the boy’s return to Ireland. If the father wished to pursue an application for access or custody, it should be directed to the courts in that country, he said.

Source: The Irish Times January 29, 2021 16:55 UTC