In a rare interview, An Garda Síochána’s intelligence chief, Assistant Commissioner Michael McElgunn, talks to Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe about a renewed threat from Islamic State, the rise of the far right, a resurgent threat from Russia, the twin problems of disinformation and self-radicalisation, and a new oversight body for national security
The judge noted that religion is "irrelevant to membership of Isis" as a person would not gain immunity for a crime because he believed he had a religious obligation to persecute witches.