Lisa Smith, the former soldier who left Ireland to join IS in Syria and who was married to an IS fighter, is due back in Ireland in the coming days.

A dedicated Garda internet unit would allow it to refer greater volumes of takedown requests to companies concerning online terrorist material, according to the EU’s counter-terrorism chief.

THE EU is to investigate taking prisoners from Guantanamo, the US detention centre in Cuba that President Barak Obama has promised to shut within a year.