Judgment was reserved in the High Court in Belfast yesterday in a judicial review application brought by four Irish citizens challenging a nationality rule which prevented them from applying for jobs in the North.
The four all Catholics living and working in Northern Ireland claimed the rule was discriminatory and infringed their rights of freedom of movement guaranteed by the European Community Treaty.
They included a Dubliner Mr Ciaran O Cathain (35), who applied for the £70,000 a year post as deputy chief executive of the Northern Industrial
Development Board.