Abdullah Khan, with an address in Dublin that cannot be published due to a court order, previously pleaded guilty to eight charges.

A sentencing hearing at the three-judge Special Criminal Court also heard on Monday that 24-year-old Abdullah Khan, who describes himself as a Salafi jihadist, is part of a "wider group of people of a like-minded mindset".

Former soldier Lisa Smith’s conviction for membership of Islamic State is “sound” and should be upheld, the State has told the Court of Appeal

Fr Murphy said if it wasn't him that night, it would have been someone else

In 2022, Smith became the first person to be convicted in an Irish court of an Islamic terrorist offence committed abroad