Pork Sausages Featured on Controversial £410,000 Migrant Deportation Flight to Predominantly Muslim Pakistan

PORK sausages were served on a £410,000 deportation flight from Ireland to Pakistan, it has emerged.

A full Irish breakfast was offered to passengers heading to the Muslim-majority country in a move branded “inappropriate” by a human rights report.

Sausage were served on a deportation flight to Muslim-majority Pakistan Credit: Getty A full Irish breakfast was offered to men on board the flight out of Dublin Credit: Alamy

There were 24 men on board the deportation flight from Dublin to Islamabad in September last year.

Passengers were held in three prisons across Ireland the night before take off, with two deemed high risk due to previous offending.

A report by the flight’s human rights monitor, appointed by the Irish government, said “the quality of food was low standard”.

“Serving pork sausages as part of a full Irish breakfast was inappropriate”, it added.

But Air Partner, the aviation company responsibly for arranging the flights, has since changed its menu.

The catering blunder was revealed by the Irish Times following a Freedom of Information battle.

The Pakistan flight cost £410,000 and was part of Ireland’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

Three other deportation flights were chartered to Georgia, Nigeria and Romania in 2025.

At least 205 illegal immigrants were deported on the flights which cost almost £1million, according to the outlet.

Asylum seekers are offered up to £8,000 by the Irish government to voluntarily return to their home country.

Those who refuse after receiving a deportation order can be forcibly removed.

The flight to Pakistan was also boarded by garda officers, a doctor, an interpreter and an independent monitor tasks with overseeing treatment of deportees.

Use of restrains and overall conditions onboard were reported on.

Overall the report found the operation was conducted with respect for the “rights and dignity of the returnees”, but a number of issues were raised during the journey.

One man became distressed while boarding after believing a garda officer was filming him on his mobile phone. It was later confirmed that “recording was taking place”.

After landing two of the passengers returned to the flight looking agitated.

One claimed his mobile phone had not been returned and the other said he did not have his luggage.

Both were reportedly reassured delays was a regular issue involving deportees possessions and they would be returned.