A seven-year-old Irish citizen currently in Belarus has brought a High Court challenge in a bid to have his Irish passport renewed. He became a naturalised Irish citizen in 2010 who departed for Isis-controlled Syria a few months after his son’s birth. Last February, Abdul’s mother applied to the Minister for Foreign Affairs to have his Irish passport, which was confiscated by the Turkish authorities, renewed. Abdul was born in Dublin in April 2013, and in July or August was granted an Irish passport. Some months after Abdul’s birth, his father, who had converted to Islam in the 1990s, travelled to Syria, counsel said.

Source: The Irish Times May 14, 2020 15:45 UTC