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Ibrahim Halawa says he received 'such hateful comments' when he arrived back in Ireland, but it's something he has been able to overcome.
The Irish man was arrested in Egypt in August 2013, after taking part in a pro-democracy rally following the ousting of president Mohamed Morsi in a military coup.
Still in his late teens, he spent four years in jail.
Now 25, Ibrahim joined Kieran Cuddihy on
The Hard Shoulder for the Thursday Interview.
Ibrahim Halawa: 'I received such hateful comments... but I am able to overcome it'
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He said: "When I came home, I received such hateful comments, saying ‘if you got a rat in a horse stall, and he grew up in a horse stall… he’s surely never going to become a horse’.