Planning for the worst as terror threat spreads

The authorities here will closely examine the latest terror attacks in a bid to learn lessons and hope to prevent a similar atrocity happening on our soil, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Terence ‘Khalid’ Kelly, the Dubliner who died in a suicide attack in Iraq is thought to be the first Irish person to die with IS.

In a recent document, the Department of Justice warned of an increased threat to the EU from Islamic State and calls from the terror group to sympathisers in Europe to use weapons such as cars to kill citizens.

It came just weeks before Monday’s outrage, in which a truck ploughed through a packed Berlin Christmas market, leaving 12 people dead and 48 injured, 16 of them seriously.