Republic’s terrorism-related arrests rise by 20 in a year

THERE was a sixfold rise in the number of terrorism-related arrests in Ireland last year, according to an EU report.

A terrorism report by the European police agency Europol said there was an increasing number of terrorism attacks and arrests in the EU in 2007.

It said Islamic terrorism posed a continuing serious threat to EU member states. However, Ireland did not report any arrests or attempted attacks connected with Islamic terrorism.