'Victim, terrorist, Irish citizen, persona non grata': Lisa Smith - the Irish soldier being held in Syria

Engaging and kind, vulnerable and gullible, extreme and dangerous - the varied descriptions are given by people who knew, or thought they knew, Lisa Smith.

It turns that they may not even know her name for she gave an Islamic one to an ITV film crew in recent weeks. The fact that she gave a TV interview, largely hidden by a hijab and niqab, but with her western eyes and Irish accent unconcealed, is not even the most bizarre aspect of her story.