Teachers in Laois are welcoming the decision.
A second appeal has been allowed in the case of a Laois family facing deportation.
The Adebowale family met with the Garda National Immigration Bureau yesterday, after their appeal for International Protection Status was rejected last month.
The family includes mother Lucy and her five sons, three of whom are enrolled in St Mary’s CBS, Portlaoise and the Edmund Rice Schools Trust in Laois.
Maura Murphy, St Mary’s CBS Principal, says that the school community in St Mary’s was shocked at the decision to refuse the initial appeal by these three young people and the rest of their family. “However, we very much welcome yesterday’s decision to enable the Adebowale family to make a second appeal and we will shortly be commencing a petition campaign to enable the wider public in Portlaoise and further afield to express their support for this appeal,” Ms Murphy said.
Gerry Bennett ERST CEO said that the Trust sees this matter as an educational wellbeing issue . “From an educational wellbeing point of view, it is so important that Star Adebowale gets to sit his Leaving Cert next June and his two brothers get to complete their Leaving Cert and Junior Cycle exams and profile in 2026 respectively. This is why we in ERST are supporting St Mary’s campaign to ask the authorities to favourably consider the Adebowale family’s appeal against deportation,”
They are originally from Nigeria, and came to Ireland from Brazil in 2021.
The father returned to Nigeria last summer and has allegedly made death threats against the family.
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