Thirty five people, including five children, were deported on a flight from Dublin to Lagos, Nigeria on Wednesday night

Five children and nine women were among 35 people deported from Ireland to Nigeria on Wednesday night.

The children were all part of family groups, gardaí said.

The International Solidarity Movement said Deirdre ‘D’ Murphy is being detained.

The Justice Minister confirmed they had been sent back to Georgia after receiving, but failing to comply with, deportation orders.

There were just over 3,000 international protection applications between January and March of this year

The department said expenditure was sometimes necessary for executive seats when a deportation officer was immediately returning to Ireland from a long-haul flight without staying at the destination

Jim O’Callaghan said the flight has landed and the people are ‘back safely in Georgia’.

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In a briefing, the minister was told so-called voluntary returns offered a “positive experience for both the state and the person being removed” as an alternative to deportation.

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Mr Justice Anthony Barr said the decision maker at the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) found the man was “subjectively credible” but his fears of persecution were “objectively unfounded”

The man claimed the move would interfere with the constitutional rights of his three children who lawfully reside here

Figures from the Department of Justice paper show that in the years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic, only between 15 and 45 per cent of deportation orders were actually carried out.

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