{"id":83531,"date":"2025-09-24T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/83531\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:34:12","slug":"father-urges-state-to-help-him-get-toddler-daughter-back-to-ireland-in-heart-rending-case-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/83531\/","title":{"rendered":"Father urges State to help him get toddler daughter back to Ireland in \u2018heart-rending\u2019 case \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">In what a judge described as a \u201cheart-rending\u201d case, a father wants orders directing the State to take immediate steps for the return to Ireland of his child who he has not seen since early this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The toddler was taken by her mother to her native <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/poland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/poland\/\">Poland<\/a> without her father\u2019s consent and remains there after a Polish court directed her return to Ireland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The parents are in dispute over the mother\u2019s claim the child will receive better treatment in Poland for her medical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">On Wednesday, the man told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/high-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/high-court\/\">High Court<\/a>\u2019s Mr Justice Miche\u00e1l P O\u2019Higgins, who was dealing with the court\u2019s vacation list, he has not seen his daughter since he saw her in a Polish court last January. He is \u201cthe only one fighting for her rights\u201d, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Paul McCarthy SC, for various State defendants, said this is \u201ca human story\u201d and there was no lack of sympathy from the defendants for the predicament of the man and his child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is also a legal matter and the man has no cause of action against the State parties, counsel said. The State is \u201cdoing all it can\u201d but there were legal and diplomatic limits on what it can do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Justice O\u2019Higgins said it was a \u201cheart-rending\u201d matter and the court required further materials and legal documents and submissions before deciding how to proceed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">He made directions for exchange of those documents and returned the man\u2019s application for various orders and declarations to October 8th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He adjourned to the same date the defendants\u2019 application to strike out the man\u2019s proceedings on grounds they disclose no cause of action and are bound to fail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The judge made orders preventing identification of the parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Earlier, he was told that a Polish ombudsman has sought to bring an appeal there concerning the court orders for return of the child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man said he wanted orders for the Irish Government to challenge Poland about the failure to return his child to Ireland. He has been left on his own and has \u201cno time for legal gymnastics\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what a judge described as a \u201cheart-rending\u201d case, a father wants orders directing the State to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,10476,11,12,15,16,5,379,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-83531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-high-court","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-poland","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}