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Olunkunle Eluhanla Coming Home To His Mates

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Thursday March 24, 2005 14:44

by Caoimhe

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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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Comments (62 of 62)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	re	ivory	Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:55
2	Fair play to all involved	Patricia Byrne	Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:19
3	Typical SP	Annoyed	Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:22
4	oneupmanship	please	Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:24
5	deportations	eoin	Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:25
6	Well done EVERYONE	Davy Carlin	Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:34
7	Re;	simon	Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:36
8	Well done	shoegirl	Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:55
9	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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