The terrorist revealed as having an Irish connection was not on the state’s radar as someone who had been radicalised or had links to a terror cell, Enda Kenny revealed yesterday. The taoiseach was speaking in Chicago after he addressed the city’s council on global affairs. “There are a small number of people in Ireland being monitored in respect of radicalisation. These facts are being checked, but my understanding is that this individual was not a member of that group.”Nóirín O’Sullivan, the garda commissioner, held a strategy meeting with the force’s anti-terror and intelligence chiefs at garda headquarters in Dublin yesterday after it emerged that Rachid Redouane had recently lived in Dublin. She called the meeting after British police confirmed that Redouane, 30, who…

Source: The Times June 06, 2017 05:37 UTC