Why this Irishman travelled to Iraq to fight ISIS

A Corkman who volunteered to fight ISIS on the front line in Iraq has appealed to the people of Ireland to help support efforts to thwart the spiralling crisis, writes Liz Dunphy of the Evening Echo.

Former military man, Michael Martin, from Cork city, a former pupil of the North Monastery school and played hurling with Glen Rovers, who has seen, and felt, the brutality of war.

Friends have been violently injured and killed and he has exchanged fire with ISIS, or Daesh — the terrorist organisation’s Arabic acronym.