# egypt - Saturday 9 January, 2016
# Red Sea
# Red Sea
Police shot dead one of the assailants and badly wounded the other.
# Jailed Without Trial
# Jailed Without Trial
The 20-year-old’s trial has been put back until 6 March.
# egypt - Friday 8 January, 2016
# News Fix
# News Fix
The discovery of a body in Limerick, a rally on Moore Street and an attack on an Egypt ian hotel.
# Hurghada
# Hurghada
The attack took place this evening at the Bella Vista hotel in the resort city of Hurghada.
# egypt - Wednesday 6 January, 2016
# Tragedies
# Tragedies
There were eight accidental airline crashes last year – accounting for 161 passenger and crew deaths.
# egypt - Saturday 19 December, 2015
# Cairo
# Cairo
In a harsh statement, Cairo also called on the European body to reconsider its approach to similar cases in the future.
# egypt - Thursday 17 December, 2015
# Ibrahim Halawa
# Ibrahim Halawa
MEPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of the resolution.
# egypt - Tuesday 15 December, 2015
# Egypt
# Egypt
The Irish citizen has been in prison in Cairo since August 2013.
# egypt - Sunday 13 December, 2015
# Egypt
# Egypt
Human rights organisation Reprieve said 8,000 people signed a birthday card for Halawa.
# egypt - Friday 4 December, 2015
# Cairo
# Cairo
According to a security source, the attack followed a dispute between employees of the nightclub and a group of youths.
# egypt - Saturday 28 November, 2015
# Cairo
# Cairo
A request has been made, but the government hasn’t received a response.
# egypt - Wednesday 25 November, 2015
# Sharm El-Sheikh
# Sharm El-Sheikh
The news comes as more airlines suspend flights to the popular resort
# egypt - Wednesday 18 November, 2015
# Improvised Explosive
# Improvised Explosive
The militant group’s claims were published in an English-language magazine.
# egypt - Tuesday 17 November, 2015
# Terrorist Attack
# Terrorist Attack
A €47 million reward is being offered for information that would lead to the arrest of those responsible.
# egypt - Friday 13 November, 2015
# Hunger Strike
# Hunger Strike
The Dublin teenager is now on hunger strike, and says he will remain so until he is released.
# egypt - Monday 9 November, 2015
# Metrojet Crash
# Metrojet Crash
Russia had refrained from blaming the crash – which killed all 224 people on 31 October – on terrorists.
# Sharm El-Sheikh
# Sharm El-Sheikh
“I can’t tell you how many times I have caught a bag full of drugs or weapons that they have let through for €10 or whatever.”
# egypt - Sunday 8 November, 2015
# Chilling
# Chilling
All 224 people on board the plane, most of them Russian tourists, were killed in last week’s crash.
# egypt - Saturday 7 November, 2015
# Eerie
# Eerie
Photographer Ben Terzza spent several months living in Egypt in 2014.
# Egypt
# Egypt
The near-miss happened around two months before the recent downing of a Russian plane in the Sinai Peninsula.
# egypt - Friday 6 November, 2015
# Metrojet
# Metrojet
“This has nothing to do with democracy or self-expression. It is sacrilege.”
# Metrojet
# Metrojet
The news comes as there were angry scenes at Sharm el-Sheikh airport as tourists remain grounded.
# Egypt
# Egypt
A number of European airlines are preparing to bring tourists home from Sharm el-Sheikh.
# egypt - Thursday 5 November, 2015
# Column
# Column
The Russian plane crash on the Sinai Peninsula has a lot in common with other bombings, writes columnist Tom Clonan.
# egypt - Tuesday 3 November, 2015
# Metrojet
# Metrojet
The Egypt ian president made the claim.
# egypt - Sunday 1 November, 2015
# Sinai
# Sinai
A top Russian investigator says the wreckage is strewn over a large area.
# egypt - Saturday 31 October, 2015
# Egypt
# Egypt
Emergency services have found no survivors of the 224 people on board.
# egypt - Sunday 4 October, 2015
# Farcical
# Farcical
After more than two year’s imprisonment without trial Tallaght teenager Halawa was supposed to learn his fate today.
# egypt - Monday 14 September, 2015
# Islamic State
# Islamic State
The army believed a convoy of vehicles was carrying jihadists.
# egypt - Friday 4 September, 2015
# Egypt
# Egypt
The two singers, Bardis and Shakira, promoted “indecency”, said the court.
# egypt - Wednesday 19 August, 2015
# Egypt
# Egypt
TD Pat Breen visited the Wadi Al-Natrun prison in Cairo for a 90 minute meeting with Halawa.
# egypt - Saturday 8 August, 2015
# Column
# Column
Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan describes her visit to the Egypt ian prison in which the 19-year-old Dubliner is currently being held without trial.
# egypt - Thursday 6 August, 2015
# Islamic State
# Islamic State
In a video posted online by the jihadists, the Croatian identifies himself as Tomislav Salopek.
# egypt - Monday 3 August, 2015
# Behind Bars
# Behind Bars
The 19-year-old from Tallaght has been held in Egypt since August 2013.
# egypt - Thursday 30 July, 2015
# Chaos
# Chaos
The teenager is facing another hearing on Sunday.
# egypt - Sunday 21 June, 2015
# Egypt
# Egypt
Ahmed Mansour is accused of being involved in an uprising in Egypt .
# egypt - Thursday 11 June, 2015
# Egypt
# Egypt
The teenager said in a letter that he is “hit for every word I say that the officer doesn’t like” and “not allowed hug [his] own mother.”
# egypt - Wednesday 3 June, 2015
# Cairo
# Cairo
The mass trial has been adjourned until 2 August.
# egypt - Tuesday 2 June, 2015
# Seamus Fleming
# Seamus Fleming
Father Seamus Fleming said he is willing to take the teenager’s place in Cairo.
# egypt - Saturday 16 May, 2015
# Arab Spring
# Arab Spring
Mohamed Morsi has been sentenced to death alongside more than 100 others over jailbreaks during the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.
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