Mounting pressure on State to help Ibrahim Halawa

Pressure is mounting on the Government to ramp up diplomatic efforts to help Ibrahim Halawa, the Irish citizen who has been in prison in Egypt since 2013, and who turns 21 today.

As one of Ibrahim’s sisters, Somaia, joined a vigil outside Cork City Hall last night, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Des Cahill, accepted that the State has failed Ibrahim.

He confirmed he has written to Taoiseach Enda Kenny urging him, and Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan, to do more in relation to this case.