The wife of a man who is in jail in Iraq is rallying hundreds of supporters to oppose a new Iraqi embassy in Ireland.
Desree Pether, 52, from Roscommon, fears for her husband Robert, 47, who had melanoma (the most serious type of skin cancer) in 2005, and has been locked up in Baghdad since April of last year.
A request by Iraq to open an embassy in Dublin was presented by Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney to Cabinet on Tuesday and approved, but there is no timeline for when the embassy will open.
