RTÉ television presenter Darragh McCullough was stopped from entering the EU with a baby because the girl was born by surrogate. Darragh, who is a presenter on telly show Ear To The Ground, revealed that he and his primary school teacher wife Aoife have been prevented from returning home since baby Grace was born three weeks ago in Cyprus. He said: "When we got to the border, the guards basically waved us away and the taxi driver informed us that the laws had changed the day before and we needed more paperwork. “We have to present more paperwork to the Turkish Interior Ministry and there's a national holiday here for the next couple of days so we are basically holed up. “I was really annoyed about it at the time, but at the end of the day, all we lost was accommodation that was booked for a couple of days." The broadcaster added: "It's lovely here in Cyprus. The temperatures are lovely, the sun is shining, but I am dying to get home." The tot was delivered by a woman from Ukraine, which allows commercial surrogacy, in the northern part of Cyprus. Cyprus joined the EU in 2004, but the northern part of the island – which is the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus - is not restricted by its regulations. The Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus in the north does not officially allow surrogacy but clinics offer surrogacy to international couples. Surrogacy is assisted reproduction whereby a woman gets pregnant and delivers a baby for another person or a couple. The European Parliament last year proposed to expand its definition of human trafficking to include international surrogacy. Darragh and Aoife, who live in Gormanston, Co Meath, travelled to the United Nations buffer zone to enter the EU-recognised southern part of Cyprus with paperwork for EU regulations to start their journey home to Ireland. An emergency travel certificate is now needed and can be issued by embassy officials in Cyprus after DNA tests are carried out. When home in Ireland, the couple must apply through the courts for guardianship rights of baby Grace. Darragh, 48, spoke on RTÉ Radio 1 and said: "Nothing is standard in terms of the process that is involved in surrogacy, it is quite sensitive so you just have to be patient.” He added: "It's all a mad mix of adrenaline and excitement and nervousness and terror and joy. At the end of maybe 15 years of trying to start a family, this is what we hoped and dreamed of. “To be honest with you, the moment where I felt most emotional about it was when we first took her out in the pram on the street." Becoming tearful, Darragh continued: "That was just an image that we had dreamed of for a long time." He added: "In some ways part of me had resigned myself to the fact that we wouldn't have a family and that was fine. We are happily married, as far as I know, and we are lucky in many respects. “But we had a lot of ups and downs through IVF and even this surrogacy journey was not straightforward and is not straightforward because we are not there yet in terms of getting Grace home." Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up here.