State has a responsibility to bring Lisa Smith home, says Coveney

Lisa Smith, the Irish woman who went to Syria is 2015 and married an ISIS fighter, has told a US news report that she wants to come home to Ireland.

State has a responsibility to bring Lisa Smith home, says Coveney

Update 13:40: Tanaiste Simon Coveney has said that the State has a responsibility to bring Irish Isil bride Lisa Smith home to her native country.

Speaking at Cork Airport the Tanaiste indicated that the Government owes a duty of care to the 37-year-old Louth woman and her child.

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