A father 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 boy, now 11, wants to stay with his mother in the EU country she took him to, and of which she is a national. The courts of that country have dismissed the father's application for his 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. The courts of the mother's country are now the only courts with jurisdiction in matters of parental responsibility regarding the child, he said.

Source: Irish Independent January 29, 2021 16:40 UTC