{"id":574285,"date":"2026-07-29T19:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574285\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:43:12","slug":"decuplet-mans-first-ever-deportation-obstruction-case-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574285\/","title":{"rendered":"Decuplet man&#8217;s first-ever deportation obstruction case dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting by Tom Tuite<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have withdrawn the first-ever prosecution for obstructing deportation brought against a Nigerian man who claimed he was a\u201ddecuplet\u201d mixed up with one of his nine identical brothers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reporting by Tom Tuite Garda\u00ed have withdrawn the first-ever prosecution for obstructing deportation brought against a Nigerian man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[62040,242296,5721,216873,42,6830,43,242297,242298,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-574285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-asylum","tag-deportation-order","tag-district-court","tag-gnib","tag-headlines","tag-migration","tag-news","tag-nigerian","tag-sam-okwuoha","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}