Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith has been jailed for 15 months for being a member of Islamic State.
The 40-year-old, a former member of the Irish Defence Forces, was found guilty in May after a nine-week trial at the non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin.
Delivering the verdict, Judge Tony Hunt said the prosecution had established beyond reasonable doubt that she travelled to Syria "with her eyes open" and pledged allegiance to the group, then led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The three-judge court acquitted Smith of a separate charge of financing terrorism by sending €800 (£680) towards medical treatment for a Syrian man in Turkey.
Smith, from Dundalk, County Louth, was a member of the Irish Defence forces from 2001 to 2011, when she converted to Islam.
She applied for discharge, the court heard, because of inconsistencies between her faith...
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