A Nigerian man who claims he is the father of two Irish-citizen children by an Irish woman – who has since married another man – has failed to get a High Court injunction preventing his deportation. The man, who was detained last January on foot of the deportation order, sought the injunction pending proceedings aimed at revoking the deportation order and his separate bid for residency on the basis of parentage of Irish citizen children. Because the children are in the primary custody of their mother, the man’s deportation will not result in the children ceasing to effectively exercise their rights as EU citizens, the judge added. The man claimed she had named another man as that child’s father in a further effort to give him, the applicant, “the brush-off”. The applicant was detained in Cloverhill prison early last January on foot of a deportation order.

Source: The Irish Times March 09, 2020 17:26 UTC