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Wed 05 May 2004Chinese mother and Irish baby 'entitled to live in EU'A Chinese mother and her Irish-born daughter are entitled to live in any EU country on account of the child's Irish citizenship, according to a preliminary judgment yesterday by the European Court of Justice.Ms Man Levette Chen went to Belfast in 2001 to give birth to a daughter, Catherine, after a lawyer advised her that the child would acquire Irish nationality. Ms Chen had already given birth to a son in China in 1998 and having a second child would have put her at odds with China's "one child policy".