Irish citizen with ‘distinct Dundalk accent’ was in her early 30s when she went to Syria
The pressure of life got to me. There was so much pressure to look good . . . and there were no morals, nothing solid
It argued this would not be a breach of international rules against leaving people stateless as Begum was also a citizen of Bangladesh through her parents, although the Bangladeshi government disputes this. Details of an Irish woman in Syria first emerged after a TV crew working for ITV News visited a camp in northern Syria two weeks ago. They interviewed a woman wearing a burka who claimed to be British but had an Irish accent. Photograph: ITV Smith cannot make the same case. She was a worldly woman in her early 30s when she went to Syria.
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