Ireland set for Islamic State detainee, young daughter to return from Turkey

Darragh Mackin said the current evidence against Lisa Smith is "inherently weak" and does not point to any terrorist offences.

She will be questioned again today at Kevin Street Garda Station in Dublin on suspicion of terror offences and can be held for up to three days.

She was met at the rear of the plane by officers and, wearing a pink blanket over her head, was escorted to a Garda auto and driven away.

Ms Smith has totally denied being involved in violence. "There are sympathies for her daughter - but there is the understanding that Lisa Smith needs to be questioned thoroughly".

The Irish Times say her likely defence to charges will surround the definition of the word "membership".

"When she got off the plane, they let her out the back door".

RTÉ said she was accompanied by three consular officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs, members of the Army Ranger Wing, and a Turkish security officer on the flight.

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Eight years ago, in an interview with the Irish Independent newspaper, she described herself as a former party girl who drank too much on occasion, smoked cannabis and took ecstasy. "UNICEF warned governments that conditions for children there were dire, with an extremely worrying child mortality rate".

She converted to Islam in 2011 while still serving in the Irish Defence Forces.

She was not in custody for the four-and-a-half-hour journey but gardaí were waiting at Dublin Airport for the plane's arrival. She resigned that year, shortly after giving a newspaper interview about her decision to convert, saying she had become disillusioned with a lifestyle of drink, drugs and partying.

Her daughter was as soon as born in Syria nonetheless is an Irish citizen.

He said that Ms Smith has a "very strong case to make". "I think people in Dundalk are aware of that". No", she said. "Have I any intentions to do anything? No.

Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said she need to include the stunning of return to Ireland and that taking away her citizenship would no longer be stunning or compassionate.

Last month, a federal judge in the United States ruled that Hoda Muthana, a US-born woman who joined the Islamic State in 2014, is not a USA citizen, blocking her wish to return home to her family in Alabama.