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Fine Gael TD Charlie Flanagan, a former minister for foreign affairs, said China’s continued refusal to allow the Dublin businessman leave the country for almost two years could strain and ‘put a blemish on’ Irish-Chinese relations. Photograph: Garrett White/Collins
Beijing should release Irishman as Chinese New Year ‘gesture’, says TD

China should use the occasion of the Chinese New Year on Friday to permit businessman Richard O’Halloran to return home to Ireland, the chairman of th(...)

Ambassador He Xiangdong: has been told that during a six-hour interrogation, the Chinese Public Service Bureau demanded Richard O’Halloran to personally pay $6 million “to assist with his release from China and to sign a statement in Mandarin”.
Irish man detained ‘illegally’ in China hospitalised twice, says lawyer

A lawyer acting for a firm employing a Dublin businessman barred from leaving China over a dispute has called on the Chinese ambassador to help secure(...)

President Michael Higgins and Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, December 2014. Photograph: Greg Baker/Pool/AP Photo
China’s president responds to Higgins letter about detained Dubliner

President Michael D Higgins and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have exchanged letters about the plight of an Irish businessman who has been deta(...)

Catherine O’Halloran says she is so worried about her son Richard’s health, who has been unable to leave China since February 2019. Photograph: Tom Honan
Mother of Irish man held in China ‘terribly disappointed with Government’

The marks, good and bad, left by the State’s history on one family line are traced through the household of Catherine O’Halloran, near the foothills o(...)

Tara O’Halloran with children Scarlett (6) Ben (13), Isabella (8) and Amber (11). Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Family of Irish man held in China: ‘Nobody is helping us – we are just begging for help’

The wife of an Irish businessman who has effectively been trapped in China for the past two years, says she is begging for help to get him out, adding(...)

The wife of the Irish businessman who is barred from leaving China met with Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney but says she has had no further feedback since the initial meeting. Photograph: Pavel Golovkin/AP
‘He needs to be allowed to come home’ – Irish man detained in China for 15 months

The wife of a Dublin businessman barred from leaving China for 15 months has made a direct appeal to the Irish Government to intervene and push for hi(...)