A seven-year-old Romanian boy, who was left in Kerry after his parents and younger brother were deported last week, has been flown to Romania.
The boy, Eduardo Covaci, left Dublin on a 6.45am flight to Bucharest, via London, accompanied by two female gardaí yesterday.
He was returned to Romania at the request of his family.
Eduardo had been left behind in Tralee when 58 Romanians - most of them failed asylum seekers - were deported last week.
The Covaci family had been living in the Kerry area for three years and Eduardo spent the three days following the deportation with his aunt.
Eduardo had been picked up from the Holy Family national school in Tralee last Wednesday by a family friend, minutes before officers from the Garda National Immigration Bureau also arrived at the school to collect him.
The Garda bureau was criticised in the wake of the incident for arriving at the school while Eduardo's fellow students were on their lunch break.
Having failed to locate Eduardo, gardaí took the rest of the family - his father Mihai Tejlas, his mother Samata Covaci and his four-year-old brother Ricardo - to Dublin for the deportation flight.