Soldier Gerard McMahon, 24, who drowned in pool while in Spain with pals had...
A SOLDIER who tragically drowned while holidaying with pals in Spain had just returned from a six month tour of Syria.Gerard McMahon, 24, passed away just days after returning from a peacekeeping...
View ArticleLawyers for alleged Islamic State member Lisa Smith to ask court to dismiss...
A FORMER member of the Defence Forces is seeking to have charges of being a member of so-called Islamic State (IS) and financing terrorism dropped at the Special Criminal Court.Lawyers for Louth woman...
View ArticleLisa Smith ‘enveloped herself in black flag’ of so-called Islamic State,...
FORMER Defence Forces soldier Lisa Smith “enveloped herself in the black flag” of the so-called Islamic State, the Special Criminal Court has heard.The Co Louth woman, 39, pleaded not guilty today to...
View ArticleTD blasts UN for making Irish troops in Syria suffer by cutting night-time...
A TD blasted the UN for making Irish troops in Syria suffer by cutting night-time electricity.Independent Cathal Berry called the energy-saving move “unacceptable”.Cathal Berry TD has blasted the UN...
View ArticleLisa Smith found GUILTY of membership of terror organisation ISIS by Special...
LISA Smith has been found guilty of membership of the terrorist organisation Isis by the Special Criminal Court.Mum-of-one Smith wept as Mr Justice Tony Hunt revealed the verdict of the three-judge,...
View ArticleFormer soldier Lisa Smith should not be jailed because of her young child and...
FORMER soldier Lisa Smith should not be jailed and instead the Special Criminal Court should consider her young child and the “appalling” conditions they suffered while in Syria, her lawyers have...
View ArticleLisa Smith in tears as judge jails her for joining ISIS and remaining with...
FORMER Irish soldier Lisa Smith who travelled to Syria to join Isis in 2014, has been jailed for 15 months by the Special Criminal Court.She is the first person to be convicted in an Irish court of an...
View ArticleDonegal man’s incredible gesture for orphans in crisis zones as he bikes his...
A DONEGAL man is just hours away from returning home after making a 10,000km trek from Dubai through 11 countries including Iran and Turkey to raise money for children in disaster zones.Evan Bourke...
View ArticleArmy medic reveals Irish troops overseas helped man shot in head as 130...
AN ARMY medic has told how Irish troops on duty overseas helped save a man shot in the head as 130 soldiers prepare to head to Syria on the latest UN peacekeeping mission.Soldiers from 19 counties...
View ArticleMan, 20, with constant runny nose discovers his brain was poking out and...
DEALING with a runny nose can feel relentless.No matter how many tissues you go through, sometimes it just keeps on coming.Journal of Medical Case ReportsAn MRI scan reveals brain tissue (on the left)...
View ArticleISIS sex slave who was kidnapped at 11 reveals she was fed cooked babies...
STARVATION started to set in four days after 11-year-old Fawzia Amin Saydo was brutally kidnapped by ISIS fighters.Handed plates of meat, she and dozens of other desperate women and children realised...
View ArticleWe live in ‘worst’ seaside town ranked alongside North Korea – haters brand...
AlamyLOCALS who live in one of the “worst” seaside towns which was ranked alongside North Korea as a “pile of dirt” say it’s not their fault.Skegness, on the Lincolnshire coast, is one of the UK’s most...
View ArticleSyrian rebels advance after taking control of Aleppo in major blow to Assad &...
ADVANCING rebel forces have captured swathes of northern Syria in a major blow to tyrant Bashar al-Assad and his chief ally Vladimir Putin.Islamist anti-government groups launched a shock offensive in...
View ArticlePutin ‘tearing hair out’ over Syria rebel blitz on Assad…he’s ‘bitten off...
VLADIMIR Putin will be tearing his hair out as he watches Syrian rebels overthrow his close pal President Assad, experts say.Russia’s tyrant is facing a worrying dilemma with him now fighting on two...
View ArticleBrit ISIS fighter Jihadi Jack issues desperate plea from Syrian jail to be...
A BRIT terrorist known as “Jihadi Jack” has begged to be repatriated to a Canadian prison instead of being sent a Syrian prison camp.In his first TV interview since 2019, Oxford born Jack Letts, 29,...
View ArticleWatch as rampaging Syrian Islamist rebels tear down Assad statue in ‘Saddam...
THIS is the moment Syrian Islamist rebels toppled a statue of Bashar al-Assad’s late brother in a chilling allusion to the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime.Separate footage showed militants tearing down...
View ArticleWatch Syrian rebels storm Assad’s palace and rifle through dictator’s bedroom...
INCREDIBLE footage shows Syrian rebels storming Bashar al-Assad’s palace and rifle through his bedroom drawers.The humiliating footage for the ruthless dictator comes as Islamist troops seized the...
View ArticlePutin stages hypersonic war games in Med as two warships blast 6,900mph...
A MENACING Vladimir Putin staged provocative war games in the Mediterranean today in a blatant show of strength to the West.The despot’s latest aggression came amid major tension with rebel advances in...
View ArticleInside sex slave-owning al-Qaeda splinter group HTS storming across Syria...
MILITANT Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have stormed across Syria within days in a mission to oust President Bashar al-Assad.The lightning offensive has placed the group and its dark history...
View ArticleSyria braced for ‘mother of all battles’ as 30,000-strong rebel army bears...
SYRIA was braced for the “mother of all battles” as rebels reached the outskirts of Homs – the country’s third largest city – and vowed to march on to capital Damascus.Russia ordered its civilians to...
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