LATEST: The campaign to free Ibrahim Halawa has today praised the Irish embassy in Egypt for its help following the Dublin man’s release from an Egyptian prison.

The Government has said it shares the frustration over the delays in the release of Ibrahim Halawa from prison in Egypt.

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Bureaucracy is what is holding up Ibrahim Halawa's release from jail according to Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney.

Ibrahim Halawa's family has said they still do not know when he is coming home.

Children's Minister Katherine Zappone has insisted progress is still taking place over the release of Ibrahim Halawa amid concern over the week-long delay in his return to Ireland.

The Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, has said he expects Ibrahim Halawa to return to Ireland within a matter of days.

The Government is considering using the government jet to bring home Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa from Egypt when he is released from jail.

Ibrahim Halawa's solicitor says there is no reason he cannot be home in Ireland by next week.

Ministers and diplomats are working to get Ibrahim Halawa home “as soon as possible” after his four-year ordeal in an Egyptian prison came to an end when a Cairo court acquitted him of all the charges against him.

IBRAHIM Halawa is an Irish citizen who has spent four years in an Egyptian jail, though he was not convicted of anything.

Latest: Ibrahim Halawa's soolicitor today paid tribute to the "hard work and dedication" of this family during their struggle to have him released from detention in Egypt.

A verdict had been expected yesterday in the case of Ibrahim Halawa in a mass trial of those involved in Muslim Brotherhood protests in August 2013, following the removal of president Mohamed Morsi.

Jailed Irishman Ibrahim Halawa has warned he has been behind bars for so long that he is scared of freedom.

The trial of Ibrahim Halawa is expected to finally hear the case for the Dubliner's defence today in Cairo.

IF our membership of the European Union is to mean anything beyond free trade, cheaper flights, and enhanced consumer rights, perhaps it is time for the Irish government to seek a collective bloc response to the continued incarceration of Ibrahim Halawa, whose trial in Cairo has been postponed for the 27th time.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney says the trial of Ibrahim Halawa appears to be moving towards a conclusion.

Ibrahim Halawa's legal team will begin challenging video evidence in the trial in Egypt today.

President Michael D Higgins has said the four-year trial in Egypt of 21-year-old Ibrahim Halawa needs an urgent resolution.

There has been another adjournment in the trial of Ibrahim Halawa, according to Amnesty International Ireland.

The Government is sending a health expert to check on the condition of 21-year-old Irishman Ibrahim Halawa who has been in jail without trial in Egypt for more than three years.

Every day at 5:30am, an alarm clock awakens Ahmed Maher from his mattress below a stairwell at his neighbourhood police station in Cairo.

The trial of Ibrahim Halawa has been adjourned for the 20th time.

The family of Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa, who has been imprisoned in Egypt without trial since 2013, has said he is dying.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD has said the Irish government must intensify its efforts to secure the release of Irishman Ibrahim Halawa.

The trial of Irishman Ibrahim Halawa in Cairo as Egypt has been adjourned again today, according to Amnesty International.

Amnesty International this evening welcomed reports that Egyptian President el-Sisi said that Ibrahim Halawa will be released and returned to Ireland upon completion of his trial.

Attempts to build millions of euro worth of trade deals between Ireland and Egypt could be blocked unless the Ibrahim Halawa case is “satisfactorily” resolved.

A cross-party delegation of Irish politicians will travel to Egypt on Monday to visit jailed Irishman Ibrahim Halawa.

Supporters of Ibrahim Halawa, the young Irishman detained in an Egyptian prison for more than three years, have received mixed messages from the Irish Government about efforts to free him, after his trial was postponed for the 16th time.

Amnesty International will hold a demonstration at the Egyptian Embassy in Ballsbridge in Dublin this evening, in protest at the trial of Irishman Ibrahim Halawa being delayed for the 15th time.

Lawyers for an Irishman jailed in Egypt for the past three years over political protests have called on the Government to put maximum pressure on efforts to free him.

The Egyptian Ambassador to Ireland is being asked to appear before an Oireachtas Committee over Ibrahim Halawa.

The Government may take the concerns surrounding the ongoing imprisonment of Irishman Ibrahim Halawa to a European level, in the absence of movement from the Egyptian government.

Latest:The Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan has said he is deeply disappointed and concerned at the latest delay in the Egyptian trial of Dublin man Ibrahim Halawa.

A legal loophole which would allow Ibrahim Halawa to leave his Egyptian jail will not yet be used by the Irish Government, despite his three-year imprisonment.

The new Government is being urged to ramp up efforts to get Ibrahim Halawa released from prison in Egypt.

Ibrahim Halawa's family say he has gone missing after being moved from his prison in Egypt.

A Dáil motion has been tabled calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Ibrahim Halawa.

The trial of Ibrahim Halawa is scheduled to take place today in Egypt.

On the eve of the trial of Irish-born Ibrahim Halawa, the European Parliament threw its weight behind the Government to save him from, potentially, the death penalty.