Sligo-based Nigerian woman Pamela Izevbekhai has lost her latest legal challenge in her fight against deportation.
Ms Izevbekhai says her two daughters, aged seven and five, will be subjected to forced female genital mutilation if they return to Nigeria.
At the High Court, her lawyers claimed the Minister for Justice failed to consider new evidence in support of her case.
However the State argued that no new material had arisen since deportation orders were signed in 2005.
Ms Izevbekhai's solicitor has said she will now appeal to the Supreme Court.
Ms Izevbekhai's case is also due to be considered by the European Court of Human Rights.
That court has instructed the Government not to deport the family in the meantime.
Ms Izevbekhai was not present in the High Court for the judgment this morning.
