Gilmore concerned for Irish captives in Egypt

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said he is increasingly concerned about the plight of four Irish siblings being held without trial in Egypt.

The foreign affairs minister raised the issue with his EU counterparts at the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg, where he also met the Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Violence in Syria, Libya, and Egypt — where three sisters and one brother from the Dublin-based Halawa family are being detained — were on the agenda.