Lisa Smith fights exclusion from the UK 

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission in London heard on Wednesday that Lisa Smith cannot be excluded from the UK as her father is from Belfast, making her a dual British-Irish citizen due to her father's British citizenship. File Picture: PA

An Irish woman charged with membership of the Islamic State is fighting her exclusion from the UK.

Former Irish Defence Forces member Lisa Smith from Co Louth has been barred from the UK by the British home secretary under regulations that allow for the exclusion of EEA nationals on the grounds of "public policy, public security or public health... prohibiting that person from entering the United Kingdom". It is linked to the charges she faces on Isis membership and funding terrorism.