A Nigerian woman who says she faces death by stoning if returned to her home country, is facing immediate deportation after the High Court refused her leave to legally challenge the Minister for Justice's deportation order.
Mr Justice Vivian Lavan held Nomota Bamidele (38) had failed to show the court there was "a substantial question" to be determined at a full trial.
He refused leave for an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Mr Proinsias O Maolchalain, counsel for Ms Bamidele, had told the court the deportation order had been issued by the Department of Justice and she had twice been directed to attend at the Garda National Immigration Bureau and had faced immediate deportation until the High Court had granted an injunction which had been continued until yesterday.
"My client faces a death sentence under Sharia laws in the part of Nigeria in which she lived," Mr O Maolchalain said.
In a out of court campaign to overturn her deportation Ms Bamidele's supporters had claimed in a petition to the Minister for Justice that she could be stoned to death under Sharia laws because she had three children outside marriage with a Christian man.
The campaign organisers claimed she had been sentenced to death in her home country in August 2002 but had escaped from prison and had fled to Ireland seeking asylum. Her application had been turned down by the Minister.
Counsel for the State said she would be deported to Lagos where Sharia law was not applied.
Ms Emily Farrell, counsel for the State, said it was only the constitutionality of the decision of the Minister to deport Ms Bamidele that had been challenged and submitted she had failed to establish substantial grounds for granting leave for Judicial Review by the Court of the Minister's order.
Mr Justice Lavan refused an adjournment to facilitate consideration of an appeal to the Supreme Court and refused to grant a Certificate of Leave to appeal to the higher court. He awarded costs against Ms Bamidele.