Four adults and a child are seeking asylum in Ireland after being found in a container on an Irish Ferries vessel.

The five refugees were discovered on the 1,432-passenger Oscar Wilde (built 1987) in Rosslare on Sunday night.

The vessel had come from Cherbourg in France.

The three men, one woman and a three-year-old girl are understood to be from Iraq, state broadcaster RTE said.

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