Lisa Smith, a former Defence Forces member who denies membership of Islamic State, told a fellow soldier that the Irish Government were "all a shower of bastards" while talking "anti western stuff" and promoting Islam as "the way forward", the Special Criminal Court has heard.
Pat Reilly, appearing in court via video-link from Australia this morning, told Sean Gillane SC for the prosecution that he was a member of the Irish Air Corps from 1991 to 2013. Mr Reilly told the court that the accused said, "we are being controlled by these people" whom she described as being "all a shower of bastards".
He said she borrowed his laptop and showed him YouTube videos of people in the Middle East including what he thought were members of the Taliban doing manoeuvres. He agreed that Ms Smith was a flight attendant in the Air Corps and that he and other members would refer to Ms Smith and her colleagues as "trolley dollies", a term that he said is now politically incorrect but was considered banter at the time.