UK to Challenge Tribunal Ruling Over Irish Ex-Soldier Who Joined ISIS

Lisa Smith had successfully appealed a Home Office exclusion order banning her from entering the UK

Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith, 40, arrives for sentencing at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin on July 22, 2022. Brian Lawless/PA Media

The British government is to challenge a tribunal ruling that allows a former Irish soldier who joined the ISIS terrorist group to enter the UK.

Lisa Smith, 41, a former member of the Irish Defence Forces, was found guilty in May last year of ISIS membership after a nine-week trial at Dublin’s Special Criminal Court. The same trial cleared Smith of a separate charge of financing terrorism.