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Olunkunle Eluhanla Coming Home To His Mates

category national | racism & migration related issues | feature author Thursday March 24, 2005 14:44author by Caoimhe Report this post to the editors

McDowell Forced To Do A U-turn.

McDowell has been forced to admit that he made a mistake in deporting Palmerstown student Olunkunle Eluhanle and is now bringing him back from Nigeria. He is giving him a six month visa to remain in Ireland to do his Leaving Cert. This is obviously due to the immense amount of effort put into this campaign by the Palmerstown Community School students and Residents against Racism, who together forced this issue.

They kept this issue alive in the media, which led to all of the oppostion parties, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Teachers Union of Ireland, Integrating Ireland and different schools around the country among others, all coming out against the deportation.

What needs to be done now is that all of those on that flight should be brought back. It is known that there were serious human rights abuses in the airport before the plane took off. It is known that some of those on the plane were unable to get in contact with their solicitors to get an injunction put in against their deportation. Also five children have been effectively orphaned in Ireland due to McDowell deporting their mothers. All of those on that plane should be brought back.

Also it must be ensured that Olunkunle Elunhanle is given permanent residency rights in Ireland - not just a six month visa.

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   re     ivory    Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:55 
   Fair play to all involved     Patricia Byrne    Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:19 
   Typical SP     Annoyed    Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:22 
   oneupmanship     please    Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:24 
   deportations     eoin    Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:25 
   Well done EVERYONE     Davy Carlin    Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:34 
   Re;     simon    Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:36 
   Well done     shoegirl    Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:55 
   International Solidarity     socialist    Thu Mar 24, 2005 13:32 
 10   all power to the junior cert!     :-)    Thu Mar 24, 2005 13:39 
 11   Proving My Point     Annoyed    Thu Mar 24, 2005 13:39 
 12   credit where its due     john    Thu Mar 24, 2005 13:43 
 13   Sp and others     Michael Gallagher    Thu Mar 24, 2005 14:04 
 14   Congrats     Gregor Kerr    Thu Mar 24, 2005 14:59 
 15   Congrats to all!     Ciaron O'Reilly    Thu Mar 24, 2005 14:59 
 16   John I agree     Davy Carlin    Thu Mar 24, 2005 15:01 
 17   Sinn Féin     Sinn Féin    Thu Mar 24, 2005 16:21 
 18   And what about the others?     Ciarán Cuffe    Thu Mar 24, 2005 16:43 
 19   and Labour.ie too     redjade    Thu Mar 24, 2005 17:10 
 20   Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin     redjade    Thu Mar 24, 2005 17:16 
 21   Brilliant news     Dermot L    Thu Mar 24, 2005 17:53 
 22   Well done everyone involved!     Michael    Thu Mar 24, 2005 18:14 
 23   A victory from which to build     SM    Thu Mar 24, 2005 19:08 
 24   mcdowell's apology     cara    Thu Mar 24, 2005 22:21 
 25   Well done     Badman    Fri Mar 25, 2005 00:44 
 26   Thank You All- Olukunle Elukanlo     by Kunle from CWI website    Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:50 
 27   Good coverage     Davy Carlin    Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:03 
 28   He is to be allowed to remain indefinitely / Bertie's feet to the fire     eeekkkk    Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:57 
 29   Will be Posted soon     Davy Carlin    Fri Mar 25, 2005 13:10 
 30   Saturday 2 April 12:30 @ GPO Dublin     Jon Glackin    Fri Mar 25, 2005 14:25 
 31   Talk About Kunle in the Hiberno-BlogoSphere...     redjade    Fri Mar 25, 2005 15:34 
 32   ???     Devil Dog    Fri Mar 25, 2005 16:17 
 33   Well Done     Alan    Fri Mar 25, 2005 17:00 
 34   The McCartney Link     toneore    Fri Mar 25, 2005 21:14 
 35   Just this once is not good enough Minister     Sinn Féin    Fri Mar 25, 2005 23:34 
 36   Meanwhile in the South Australian Desert-the Baxter Gulag is Confronted     Ciaron    Sat Mar 26, 2005 02:21 
 37   Whoops this is even a better link to what's unfolding over Easter in OZ outback detention centre     Ciaron    Sat Mar 26, 2005 02:25 
 38   From The Examiner : Big Mickey's Story Full of Holes     eeekkkkk    Sat Mar 26, 2005 13:33 
 39   Lagos & Alagbon: some background     Chekov    Sat Mar 26, 2005 13:40 
 40   Gardai subject of complaints over deportations / via unison.ie     eeekkkk    Sat Mar 26, 2005 13:54 
 41   World Media Takes Notice...     redjade    Sat Mar 26, 2005 17:26 
 42   McD vs Kunle Audio Various     eeekkkk    Sat Mar 26, 2005 19:03 
 43   re:ivory     Chris Bond    Sun Mar 27, 2005 19:33 
 44   Thumbs up.......     Video Watcher    Mon Mar 28, 2005 02:15 
 45   Protests in Australia     Caser    Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:44 
 46   What the Minister reads     john finn    Tue Mar 29, 2005 15:45 
 47   Press Conference     CWI    Wed Mar 30, 2005 23:46 
 48   Olunkunle Eluhanla.     Donie    Wed Aug 31, 2005 23:14 
 49   But can he?     Al    Thu Sep 01, 2005 03:16 
 50   Al     SH    Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:26 
 51   Please tell     Al    Thu Sep 01, 2005 15:01 
 52   Al     SH    Thu Sep 01, 2005 15:46 
 53   No proceedings     SH    Thu Sep 01, 2005 15:46 
 54   this subject     Stephen    Thu Sep 01, 2005 18:15 
 55   Thank you Stephen     SH    Thu Sep 01, 2005 18:31 
 56   The game     Al    Thu Sep 01, 2005 19:58 
 57   accepted     SH    Thu Sep 01, 2005 20:59 
 58   Athrú intinne an Aire?     Duine    Fri Sep 02, 2005 13:09 
 59   Olunkunle Eluhanla     Donie    Fri Sep 02, 2005 18:47 
 60   Law     SH    Fri Sep 02, 2005 18:55 
 61   3 minimum     Al    Fri Sep 02, 2005 19:30 
 62   Olunkunle Eluhanla Coming Home To His Mates     Donie    Fri Sep 02, 2005 20:09 


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