The Irishman arrested at the Genoa protests last month for possessing a Swiss army penknife has been released and is due to return home to Dublin this evening.

Italy's Interior Minister, Claudio Scajola, has survived a vote of no confidence over the police handling of the violent protests at the G8 summit in Genoa earlier this month.

A group of Irish activists, who were caught up in the G8 protests in Genoa last week, are demanding the release of one of their campaigners.