Latest: 'Government must intensify efforts to secure release of Ibrahim Halawa' says Adams

Update 8pm: Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams TD has said the Irish government must intensify its efforts to secure the release of Irishman Ibrahim Halawa.

Deputy Adams made the comments following the failure of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El- Sisi to include Ibrahim on list of 203 young prisoners who were released from prison yesterday. Ibrahim has spent more than three years imprisoned in Egypt.