The wife of a man jailed in Iraq pleaded for an emergency meeting with Taoiseach Micheal Martin amid fears her husband has cancer.
Robert Pether was locked up in April last year in Baghdad in a €20 million contract row between his Dubai-based employer and the Central Bank of Iraq.
The businessman (47) had melanoma — the most serious type of skin cancer — in 2005 and needs regular monitoring check-ups.
