An application for a stay against a deportation order by a pregnant Nigerian woman and her unborn child was refused by the European Court of Human Rights this afternoon.
Yesterday the woman failed in a Supreme Court appeal against an earlier High Court decision which had rejected a challenge to the deportation order.
The five-judge Supreme Court lifted a stay on the execution of the deportation order, which had been granted to facilitate the appeal.
Following the Supreme Court decision, lawyers for the woman submitted an application for a stay on the deportation order with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg. Today that court rejected an application for a stay on the deportation order.
When announcing the Supreme Court's decision to reject the woman's appeal yesterday, the Chief Justice Mr Justice Keane said the court would give its reasons in a written judgment at a later, unspecified date.
Ms Iyabode Abimbola Oladado (32), who lives in Tralee, Co Kerry, is due to give birth in May.
