The High Court has turned down an application to extradite an Irish man wanted in Hungary to serve a sentence for causing the death of two young children while driving.
Ciaran Tobin, an accountant from Cairn Manor, Ratoath in Co Meath, was sentenced to three years in jail by a Hungarian Court in 2002.
The court convicted the 41-year-old in his absence of negligent driving causing the deaths of the children in a suburb of Budapest in April 2000.
The children, aged five and two, died at the scene.
Hungarian prosecutors said Mr Tobin's car mounted the footpath after he was overtaking due to an excessive steering movement.
