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Firefighters outside the Aquatics Centre in Olympic Park today. Kirsty O’Connor/PA

People treated for breathing difficulties after ‘gas release’ at London park

Fire and ambulance crews have been called to the incident at the Aquatics Centre.

PARAMEDICS ARE TREATING a number of people for breathing difficulties after a “high quantity of chlorine gas” leaked in London’s Olympic Park.

London Ambulance Service and London Fire and Rescue were both called to the Aquatics Centre with casualties being treated for breathing difficulties.

Around 200 people were evacuated from the Aquatics Centre, firefighters from London Fire and Rescue told reporters at the scene. 

The area has been cordoned off, and people have been urged to stay away.

In a tweet, LAS said: “London Ambulance Service is responding to a major incident @AquaticsCentre in Stratford alongside colleagues from @LondonFire and @metpoliceuk.

“We have dispatched multiple resources to the scene and are treating a number of patients.”

The Olympic Park Twitter account added: “There has been an incident @AquaticsCentre this morning involving the release of a gas. The area has been cordoned off and evacuated.

“We’re working with emergency services on site. There are a number of casualties with breathing difficulties being treated by @Ldn_Ambulance.”

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan added: “I remain in close contact with our emergency services who are dealing with a gas-related incident at the London Aquatics Centre this morning.

“A number of people are being treated by London Ambulance Service. Please avoid the area which has been cordoned off and evacuated.”

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    Mute Ter
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    Nov 4th 2019, 12:55 PM

    She made her own way there.let her make her own way back

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:39 PM

    @Ter: also told british journalists she never had a gun in her hand while over there and lo and behold they discover several pictures of her with guns. also denies claims from ISIS children that she helped teach kids how to use guns.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 4:22 PM

    @The long walk home☘️:

    Coveney says his primary concern is for her two-year-old daughter and that is what is motivating this decision. If he genuinely means that, then the little girl will be removed from Lisa Smith and given a proper chance in life. If she’s left to be raised by an Islamist, she doesn’t stand a chance, regardless of whether she is brought back to Ireland or not.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:38 PM

    @Ter: But she has pals in political circles…

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    Nov 5th 2019, 7:47 AM

    @Ter: No, we don’t want her F****N back Full stop.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 12:49 PM

    Does that mean the civic reception is to be cancelled as well ?? Leave her where she is.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 6:18 PM

    @The digenous: Wow. Looks like Shane Ross won’t be alone to meet her at the airport.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 6:37 PM

    @The digenous: what about her daughter? The child’s an innocent Irish citizen.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 6:43 PM

    @GMCManning: seriously !! she’s a disgrace to our country. Best of luck on likes on this one.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 8:14 PM

    @The digenous: the child’s a disgrace to our country? Bit of a stretch and if twas likes I cared about I’d join the “f ‘er and the kid” brigade.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 8:28 PM

    @GMCManning: whateves mate!!! Nite.

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    Nov 6th 2019, 7:14 AM

    @GMCManning: half Irish, born in a foreign country

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:03 PM

    If she has to come home, so be it. But not a single cent of taxpayers money should be spent helping her. She made her own way there and doesn’t seem to be repentant for her actions or those of the organisation she chose to join.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:04 PM

    @Conoroconnor: too late for that.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 4:21 PM

    @Conoroconnor: money would be better spend on special needs schools for those that need it so badly it’s a disgrace having parents ringing up joe Duffy begging for places in schools also home help for the elderly a lot of elderly people want to stay in their own homes which they could with a bit bit of help
    This country is ignoring all those whose voices are not loud enough to keep shouting and the poor parents
    Have enough to do to get through each day
    When will the government listen

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:16 PM

    This thing . Not fit to be called a woman had no problem standing by her man when the mob he was running with were guilty of some of the most obscene crimes against people . She supported the people who saw fit to set a Jordanian man alight while locked in a cage . That alone should make her and anyone one who supported that act beyond the reach of redemption. I cannot believe there is a place for her kind in any society . Every nation has security at a height never seen before to keep her likes out. And the powers that be here send a escort to bring this low life back ? If she must come back is she going to be interned for membership of an illegal organization? Sickening it is

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:13 PM

    @Aaron Luke: This is from the Guardian: “Isis fighters established a system of sexual slavery, claiming that the rape of non-Muslims was a form of worship. They set up markets in several towns where girls as young as nine were put up for auction to militants, with owners often trading women again online.”
    This is the organisation that Ms. Smith belongs to. If you have a strong stomach, the rest of the report is here: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jul/01/i-was-sold-seven-times-yazidi-women-welcomed-back-into-the-faith

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:26 PM

    The head of The Muslim Peace and Integration Council of Ireland has stated his disbelief at the level of effort being put into bringing a member of ISIS into the country. In all fairness, if Leo and Simon know better than him I’m shocked.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:59 PM

    @Niall Bourke: and the child? Is she an ISIS member at 2 years old?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 5:04 PM

    @Ger:

    No. But she could be at 22 if she is raised by one.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 9:07 PM

    @Sylvia O’Regan: Well we could all be anything in 20 years. We shouldn’t be banned from the country based on someone predicting the future.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:38 PM

    When non eu nationals move to ireland and have a child who is born in ireland that child is an irish citizen, this terrorists daughter was born in tunisia which would make her a tunisian citizen NOT irish, her mother revoked her irish citizenship when she joined ISIS and her father is british, the child was never in ireland so has no right to become one of our citizens

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:46 PM

    @Karl Charlie: So Coventry has no idea of the law when he said “she is an Irish citizen”? Colour me amazed.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:47 PM

    @Brendan Moriarty: Coventry, ha! Good ol’ spellcheck

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    Nov 4th 2019, 4:24 PM

    @Karl Charlie: Under the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004, children born of other foreign national parents in the island of Ireland on or after 1 January 2005 are not automatically entitled to Irish citizenship.
    In cases where at least one parent was an Irish citizen born in the island of Ireland citizenship is automatic and dates from birth

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:12 PM

    Simon:

    How much will this operation cost the taxpayer?

    What will you do with these people when they return here and how much will that cost the taxpayer?

    (Will all other deserters in similar circumstances in the future get the same treatment to return now that you have set a precedent?, also if she was not ex Defence forces would you be so concerned?)

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:58 PM

    @Eddie O’Neill: as the government have said its more to do with the child who is an Irish citizen, than the mother. Hopefully the mother is jailed and the child left in the care of the mothers family.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:01 PM

    @Ger: that would be more my thinking on the issue

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:24 PM

    @Eddie O’Neill: it’s terrible Eddie and it’s all costing us tax payers

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:32 PM

    @Alan Scott: Alan, it’s costing all citizens, not just tax payers.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:53 PM

    @Eddie O’Neill: whether we like it or not we have a responsibility towards Irish citizens who have committed crimes abroad.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 9:09 PM

    @EillieEs: and especially in this case to the child who has committed no crime.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:14 PM

    It would more in his line to sort out health and housing at home and forget that evil B who joined that organisation from Hell. She has only herself to blame Pity the Government are not as sympathetic to homeless people and people on hHosp trollies.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:34 PM

    @Alan Scott: The child is an Irish citizen, and that’s what he’s most concerned with, not Lisa Smith. Why should the child lose out in all this?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:37 PM

    Remember this at the ballot box, that this government bent over backwards to spend undoubtedly obscene amounts and untold manhours to bring this suspected terrorist – or at least terrorist sympathizer, back to Eire. All this despite the vast amount of domestic issues which should take priority, such as sorting out the health system, ending homelessness and improving home affordability. Soft touch Ireland, a joke

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:36 PM

    @Alan Grouse: The child Alan, the child. You want the child abandoned there, how is any of this the child’s fault? They’ll bring them both home, the kid will end up in the care of her family and Smith will face some sort of justice at some stage.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 4:57 PM

    @Bernard Sweeney: @Bernard Sweeney: If anyone abandoned the child it was the mother and her sheer recklessness going to a warzone with fanatics. Plenty of women went off to join live in “paradise in the caliphate” and bore children but of course now they all want to return to the once despised West. She made the choice for her and her child, she should own that and the resources and funds spent elsewhere serving those truly in need.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 9:48 PM

    @Bernard Sweeney: I would struggle to think of anywhere she could live where she could find refuge from hostility towards her . That might be just the punishment she needs .

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    Nov 5th 2019, 2:44 PM

    @Alan Grouse: The child is an Irish citizen, you want Irish citizens abandoned in another country at 2 years of age because her mother was radicalized? (no, I’m not saying the mother is blameless)

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    Nov 5th 2019, 2:44 PM

    @Terry Cahill: Yeah but that’s not the childs fault though is it? (I assume you meant the child in your comment)

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:56 PM

    I think I can speak for everyone I know and even the people I don’t know, Ireland does not want her back.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 8:00 PM

    @Jonny kerr: she is an Irish citizen as is her child so they’ve as much right to be here as you or I. I would imagine she has serious questions and possible court case facing her on her return but her child deserves the protection of the state.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 8:05 PM

    @EillieEs: about 20 people have said that you like to copy,paste

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:16 PM

    Ryan Tubridy, is hoping to have her on the Late Late Toye Show.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:08 PM

    @Paul Maguire: she should behead tubz

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:54 PM

    @Paul Maguire: yawn

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:35 PM

    Ah she should be back just in time for a guest apperance on the late late show. Or is there a new series of strictly coming soon?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:56 PM

    The burka is an improvement for her, easier to look at

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:30 PM

    @Marcas Ivarrson: i would prefer if our governments could tackle the more difficult issues and work harder at taking tougher stances on issues like strengthening our borders from abuse or legislating for wearing burka just like many European countries like France and Netherlands have done , instead of trying to be populist and tick all the politically correct boxes. `i also hope that the criminal justice system in ireland can look at how an ex Irish Defence Forces member can leave to support ISIL -one of the largest terrorist networks on the planet and not be investigated for wrong doing – we have a long history of Special Criminal Courts in Ireland especially to tackle the issue of terrorism and there is no good reason people who take these decisions to try ‘radicalise’ can be given a free pass.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:01 PM

    @Marcas Ivarrson: judging by your pic you choose for yourself , you might consider a burka!

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:38 PM

    @Jerriko17: How is that comment constructive? Cop on ffs.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 4:03 PM

    @Bernard Sweeney: the original or mine?

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    Nov 5th 2019, 2:45 PM

    @Jerriko17: yours

    ” judging by your pic you choose for yourself , you might consider a burka!”

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:32 PM

    It’s amazing these politicians have time to clear up this person’s mess. The same mess with halawi in Egypt. These people dug themselves into a hole.why should people who they deserted dig them out. Im sure there are better things for politicians to do.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:48 PM

    However, Coveney said today he’s hopeful progress with the case can be reached “within a few weeks”.

    4 years ago in November & December 2015 three whistle-blowers made protected disclosures to Minister Simon Coveney alleging considerable ongoing Health & Safety malpractice at the Irish Air Corps leading to poor health & safety and untimely deaths of scores of personnel.

    The allegations of unsafe chemical work practices were proven by a subsequent HSA investigation which took almost 3 years and threatened legal action against the Irish Air Corps if they did not provide personnel with chemical handling training and issue with them such luxuries as gloves, eye protection & respirators.

    23 men have died untimely deaths since Minister Coveney was alerted to probably the greatest health & safety tragedy to ever happen with the state with an untimely death body count that now stands at 75 men with an average age of 50 years. That’s 75 brothers, sons, fathers, husbands, partners etc 75 families devastated at the loss of a loved one.

    Since Minister Coveney was alerted to this tragedy 3 men have died by they own hand bringing the number of Air Corps personnel/ex-personnel suicides that we are aware of to 14. Timely healthcare intervention could have saved some of these men.

    Minister Coveney is happy to see state assistance provided to a woman who joined one of the most vile terrorist organisations the world has ever seen but in terms of helping men & women poisoned by the Irish Air Corps whilst serving the state he has thus far provided ZERO assistance.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:00 PM

    Don’t delete the post I just made Cristina….. I asked why The Journal decided to change the image at the top of the story from an image of Lisa Smith to an image above. Is The Journal trying to push an anti Muslim narrative?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:15 PM

    @dB O’Neill: Eh no… She Muslim isn’t she and they wear the burqa, what’s your problem? Maybe you need to see her in the Irish army uniform.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:22 PM

    @John Blessing: No. When the article was originally posted the picture on top was the well known one of Lisa Smith with the white hijab. It was then changed to what would appear a more sinister image of a mystery woman in a full black burqa. I asked the question in the comments which was quickly deleted, is The Journal trying to push a specific narrative??

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:33 PM

    @dB O’Neill: what’s sinister about a burqa?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:33 PM

    @dB O’Neill:
    The image above IS Lisa Smith – it was released by ITV after they interviewed her.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/woman-detained-in-syria-confirmed-as-former-defence-forces-member-from-dundalk-1.3820858

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:34 PM

    @dB O’Neill: Anti Muslim? Are you serious? Just like the rest of Irish media they are islamophiles. Catch on to yourself.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:41 PM

    @alan: nothing at all, just asking why they felt the need to change the image

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:45 PM

    @dB O’Neill:
    It sounds like you’re disappointed that they don’t have a policy of only showing the more benign-looking photos of her.
    Are you the one with an agenda?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:00 PM

    @dB O’Neill: Burqas are sinister and the people who wear them are sinister.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:02 PM

    @The Great Unwashed: just disappointed they felt the need to alter the article imagery after it was initially posted.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:09 PM

    @Clanrickard: that’s just a close minded comment

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:14 PM

    @dB O’Neill: That is Lisa Smith in a Burqa at the Al Hawl prison camp after arriving their from the ISIS last stand at the Battle of Baghouz. That was her first interview in front of cameras after she surrendered. She was one of the last groups that left the battle.

    She stayed in the foreigner section of Al Hawl camp, where the most hardline and dangerous ISIS followers live…

    https://youtu.be/eD7hDRTWKjY?t=110

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:31 PM

    @dB O’Neill:
    The Journal change their article photos all the time. Either way your original comment makes it clear that you weren’t just annoyed because they changed the photo, you were annoyed because of the nature of the images involved.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:48 PM

    Leave her where she is . Personally I don’t want her back ! She made her choice .

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:29 PM

    Is treason still on our Statute Books?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:39 PM

    @Helen Farrell: I am pretty sure we have legislation up the wazoo for ‘anit-terrorism’ based on our unique history with that subject – membership of an organisation could see you in front of the Special Criminal Courts without a jury especially to help tackle that scourge….so I cannot understand how or why leaving the Defence forces to support ISIL gets you some magic pass in ireland in 2019 so that the Rangers have to be put in harms way to assist you instead of an arrest warrant .

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:56 PM

    Children begging on our streets and people dying on our streets,and people living in poverty …but we have to go rescue some woman who was a member of ISIS ..
    GOOD ole Irelan

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:51 PM

    There’s more deserving cases here at home. All this at tax payers expense. She made her own way there, let her make her own way back. We’re a global laughing stock at this point. If the story last week about the psychiatric ward in Waterford was anything to go by, traipsing half way round the world to repatriate this moron should be the farthest thing from any ministers mind.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:41 PM

    @Ross O’Donnell: Citizens expense, not just the taxpayer. Also, do you think her 2 year old kid can make it’s “own way back” ?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:11 PM

    Get her a nice house in Achill or oughterard maybe

    Check with greedy Grealish first

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:56 PM

    Late late spot lined up and the rest with it.. Unreal.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:35 PM

    @Jim O Brien – TechBuzz Ireland: you are 100% right……. and my blood boils that RTE are deluded about their own role in the world enough to happily keep paying the presenter half a million a year while keeping the seat open for basket cases like this and then pontificate from on high to us mere mortals who fund the whole operation ….jesus you couldn’t make up how shambolic the Irish way of doing things is these days.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:46 PM

    It should have never been made public the rangers were in turkey, but they are not there to carry her bags. The are the best this country has to offer and I am sure she will be well debriefed by the rangers before she will be allowed home without our liberal lefties trying to protect her human rights which she did not give to others

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:07 PM

    Where would we be without the peace and beauty that organised religion brings to the world…. let gods child return

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:23 PM

    @Tony Henry: Yes, religion, you just couldn’t make it up.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:04 PM

    Tier one operatives wasting their time on this

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    Nov 4th 2019, 12:45 PM

    Brandon Arrey.

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    Mute Sam Cairns
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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:59 PM

    If she brought or transferred money to the area she was, then there is a Financing of Terrorism act to be dealt with, hope she kept her receipts.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:25 PM

    @Sam Cairns: people use bitcoin these days

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    Mute Jerriko17
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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:19 PM

    Where are all the “we should look after our own before anyone else” , brigade now?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:50 PM

    @Jerriko17:
    Maybe they think she relinquished the right to be seen as one of our own when she joined an organisation that had declared war on Ireland.
    Just a guess like….

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:54 PM

    @The Great Unwashed: her kid, an Irish citizen, did nothing.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:03 PM

    @Jerriko17: Funny how you types always say that any child born in Ireland is Irish but this child born in Syria, who may or may not be Lisa smiths child (isis fighters like her took many children prisoner) isn’t Syrian, but Irish also – is any child born anywhere Irish, or is it only Islamic terrorists children?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:21 PM

    @Yermanuptheroad: Any child of an Irish citizen is an Irish citizen for you types up the road that are not familiar with Irish law!!

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:34 PM

    @Jerriko17:
    Agreed I have some sympathy for the child, but I have zero sympathy for Lisa Smith herself.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:58 PM

    @The Great Unwashed: What’s sympathetic about separating a mother and daughter. There’s no way of taking her citizenship away so we just have to suck it up and let her and her kid come back. There’s a lot more dangerous people walking our countryside causing havoc already, eg Cavan, and we’re worried about what she might do in the future or is it a case of balaclavas OK, hijabs not OK.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 4:02 PM

    @Jerriko17:
    What makes you think that any right-minded person thinks that balaclavas are ok??

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    Nov 4th 2019, 4:21 PM

    @The Great Unwashed: because there seems to be more of an outcry over the unlikely threat of someone wearing a hijab than the live threat to law and order with the carry-on around the Cavan/border area…..just seems to me to be way, way out of proportion.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 5:38 PM

    @Jerriko17:
    Plenty of outcry about recent events in Cavan & Fermanagh too – you mustn’t have been paying attention.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:57 PM

    @The Great Unwashed: over 70 violent incidents, kidnapping, beating….. Not one arrest! Its about proportion!!!

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    Nov 5th 2019, 4:57 AM

    @Jerriko17:
    Lisa Smith hasn’t been arrested either, so I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:10 PM

    This is where we need the “dislike” emoji back

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:46 PM

    We are definitely being led by the nose down a dangerous path, let her make her own back.
    I doubt you could find many that want a terrorist with a hatred for the West and her own country back, why can’t get family take care of this.
    Her innocent child will probably be indoctrinated by her/them anyway.
    All lies & B S from the government

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    Mute Alan Scott
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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:28 PM

    This is awful and to terrible cost to the tax payer

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:47 PM

    Hopefully the breakthrough means handed over to the Syrian government

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:19 PM

    What a clever way for the government to distract people and keep us arguing amoung ourselves..

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:22 PM

    This should not be allowed she might be in contact with terrorist organisations she shouldnt be getting the treatment shes getting treated as the vunerable one its awful

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:19 PM

    F*ck her leave her where she is leave her rot. She made a rod for her own back

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:32 PM

    The government will throw you and me in jail if we don’t pay for this woman’s international escort (for this is what our tax forfeits are going towards).
    And they’d call ME a tax fraud if I were to not hand over the money they extort to bring these types of scoundrels into the country. Ireland is an undeveloping country.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:45 PM

    That’s a bloody disgrace. She should be left in whatever hole she’s living now

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:03 PM

    We have the best army in the world for undercover operations.So it will all work out well. The public does not hear about them but they still go on around the world nevertheless, the Americans and other countries use our army if in a difficult situation but as I say it’s all top secret.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:10 PM

    @Marty from Sligo: I’m interested if you can prove any of it

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:21 PM

    @Martin Harte: No because he said that it is top-secret

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:24 PM

    @Hans Vos: if its all top secret, how does Marty from Sligo know the ARW go around with the Americans as he said?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:25 PM

    @Martin Harte: how do they go around the world and be used by the Americans *

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:31 PM

    @Martin Harte: Your either a category 5 nut job or looking to stir it up

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:38 PM

    @Tony Henry: I’ll leave that decision to you Doc ;-)

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:32 PM

    @Marty from Sligo: stop waffling Marty.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:02 PM

    @Marty from Sligo: Top secret me bolix , if you know about it. Go back to your playstation.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:37 PM
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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:37 PM

    Too much speculation as to why they are bringing her home. For all we know they are retrieving her to be charged with offences against the state. Let’s just wait and see. Hopefully a charge of treason is on the cards!

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    Nov 4th 2019, 4:13 PM

    @Michael Evans: She was the trolley dolly on the government jet. Who knows what secrets she knows, what she could tell about the great and the good of the country.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:42 PM

    @Dave Doyle: she’ll have dirt on Bertie and al-Baghdadi then

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    Nov 4th 2019, 8:01 PM

    @Dave Doyle: yeah but she was fond of the trolley at the weekend,Brandy cocaine,3sums,4sums she actually ended up in Syria to detox but took a wrong turn somewhere!…true story tho there’s a link for it but on a website that’s another story!

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    Nov 4th 2019, 6:12 PM

    No votes in this Simon and Leo

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    Nov 4th 2019, 9:05 PM

    Coveney is dense if he thinks anyone is interested in that woman’s welfare. He obviously likes being in the spotlight. Feeling any publicity is good publicity.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:55 PM

    I’m quite happy for her to never be returned to Ireland. The only issue is that she has a 2 year old child who is an innocent Irish citizen. So if they are brought back it should be under the provision that the mother will be investigated and criminally charged and the child placed in the care of the mothers family. Under these conditions its the right thing to do. The government have said that the Garda are involved as will “other state agencies” be, which I assume mean Tusla etc.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 6:53 PM

    No way should she be allowed back. Next thing we hear will be a suicide vest in the middle of a crowded area incident. She’s ISIS, no matter what she’s says, she’s not going to change her beliefs.

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    Mute Josh Hanners
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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:33 PM

    This woman has serious mental health issues.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:38 PM

    @Josh Hanners: they all do

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:30 PM

    I feel if she hadn’t connections due to her work with government officials here in the past then they wouldn’t care as much as they do for her now?

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    Mute Patti o furniture
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    Nov 4th 2019, 4:25 PM

    If her husband was alive she’d still be over there.. No sympathy for the cum bucket..

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    Nov 4th 2019, 1:09 PM

    Y who’s concerned

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:03 PM

    Is that her in the picture?

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    Nov 4th 2019, 2:45 PM

    @Eric Gaffney: yep. and of course we have some outrage and / or my comments taken down if I speak out and voice my opinion that we should look to the example set by France and Netherlands and ban the wearing of Burka in public places – it should be a pretty simple rule , if you wish to live in Irish society you should try assimilate and integrate and follow our local rules and customs and regulations – this would be a good time for politicians to start handling the more difficult discussions that need to be had instead of wasting taxpayers money on missions to try help idiots who thought it was a good idea to move to Syria / support ISIL and generally create a clusterf***k for your own life and expect others to have to clean up. rant ends ;-)

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    Nov 4th 2019, 6:52 PM

    Jail on return 10years no remission

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:30 PM

    @Aaron Jones: So translated that is 4 years then???

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    Nov 4th 2019, 4:35 PM

    Shell be home to celebrate Christmas and watch her child enjoy Santa. I hope she’ll be happy and not get too much hassle.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 3:06 PM

    As a civilized, stable and wealthy society, setting standards in how a sovereign state should behave and operate on the global stage, Ireland is doing the right thing here, imho!

    The mother is a prisoner, in a vicious unstable danger zone, living in squalor and badly in need of medical care, on mental health front, and de-radicalization from the demons that have taken over following her recent “holidays” to Middle East regions.

    It would be the hard heart that denies this troubled Irish citizen and her two year old baby a safe return home, even if by force, so that the required medical, counseling effort can be administered aiding full reintegration back into society.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 8:12 PM

    Leave her there! She made her bed now let her lie in it. Even looking at her interviews…. Lying like F**k… her body language says everything.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 10:15 PM

    The money that’s gonna
    Be wasted on this wan… while Rest of us struggle on, we’d get done for owing for a packet of of crisps… While this wan commits Treason joins a Terrorist organisation, lies through her teeth, A mission to save her Ass n bring her back to Ireland prob to be housed n allowances for her…. sure we meet her m welcome her with roses n chocs to put the icing on the cake…. Well done Ireland… What a F****N JOKE.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 10:59 PM

    Send her to the Cavan / Fermanagh border to sort out those terrorists.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:54 PM

    She should be beaten to death with her own leg f her

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    Nov 4th 2019, 8:13 PM

    @Sean McCormac: Absolutely

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    Nov 5th 2019, 10:11 AM

    What breakthrough? leave her out there to f**k.

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    Mute Noel O Sullivan
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    Nov 4th 2019, 5:17 PM

    Its all about bringing her daughter home.
    Turkey has also said that all foreign isis will be sent home.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 7:32 PM

    @Noel O Sullivan: But she isn’t an Irish citizen as she was never here…

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    Nov 4th 2019, 10:46 PM

    She will hide from public rest of her life

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