Search continues for Irish siblings detained in Egypt

Meanwhile, Irish diplomats have yet to locate the four Irish siblings who were detained after security forces stormed a mosque in Cairo at the weekend.

The envoys visited Tora prison and several other facilities on the outskirts of the city, in an unsuccessful attempt to locate the three sisters who are in their 20s, and their teenage brother.

Omaima, 20, Fatima, 22, and Somaia, 27, and their 17-year-old brother Ibrihim, were among hundreds of people cleared out of the Al Fateh mosque when security forces stormed the building on Saturday.

The four are children of Hussein Halawa, the Imam at Ireland's largest mosque in Dublin.