A former member of the Irish military who became a so-called Islamic State bride in Syria has been arrested on suspicion of terror offences as she arrived back in Ireland.

Lisa Smith, 38, once accompanied an ex-president and leader of Ireland on foreign trips as a member of the Defence Forces, but went to the war-torn Middle Eastern country in 2015 after converting to Islam.

Ms Smith had been living with her two-year-old daughter in a Syrian refugee camp; she is being cared for by her family in Ireland while her mother is questioned at a Dublin police station.

Irish ex-airwoman turned Jihadi bride Lisa Smith has been arrested on the tarmac at Dublin airport (pictured under a pink blanket) after leaving a Syrian refugee camp with her two-year-old daughter

Ms Smith, 38, is pictured arriving at a police station in Dublin where she is being questioned about suspected terrorist activities

She was was deported from Turkey and put on the first scheduled Turkish Airlines flight to Ireland, which landed at Dublin airport shortly before 10.30am today.

She was met by counter-terrorism police who have been investigating her activities and can be questioned for up to three days.

Irish police said: 'Today, Sunday 1st December 2019, at Dublin Airport, An Garda Siochana has arrested an Irish Citizen on suspicion of terrorist offences following her deportation from Turkey.

'She is currently being detained at a South Dublin Garda station under the provisions of Section 30 of the Offences against the State Act, 1939 as amended.

'A child, also an Irish citizen, was in the company of the female and is now being cared for by relatives.'

Lisa Smith, 38, a former member of the Irish Defence Forces, flew to Dublin from Turkey today while police waited for her arrival

Plans have also been put in place to take care of her daughter, who was born in Syria but is an Irish citizen.

According to RTE, Ms Smith was accompanied by three consular officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs, members of the Army Ranger Wing, and a Turkish security officer.

Ms Smith has continually denied training young women to fight for ISIS and says she never killed anyone.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4, from the refugee camp in Syria where she lives, Lisa said: 'I want myself an actual caliphate, as in a Muslim country. Not like a group, or a brutality group'.

She will be taken to a garda (police) station and questioned about suspected terrorist offences

Ms Smith is originally from Dundalk in Co Louth, close to the Irish border with Northern Ireland.

She has said the father of her child was a suspected member of IS who died last year.

Ms Smith held a relatively lowly role in the Defence Forces but worked on the official Irish Government jet.

She accompanied former president Mary Robinson and then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on journeys.

Significant numbers of Europeans left for Syria to fight for and against IS during a bloody war which destroyed the Middle Eastern country and produced millions of refugees.

Ms Smith has denied being involved in violence.

Ms Smith held a relatively lowly role in the Defence Forces but worked on the official Irish Government jet.

She accompanied former president Mary Robinson and then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on journeys.

Significant numbers of Europeans left for Syria to fight for and against IS during a bloody war which destroyed the Middle Eastern country and produced millions of refugees.

Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said she should have the right of return to Ireland and that removing her citizenship would not be right or compassionate.

Lisa (third from right, circled) also denied training young girls to fight for the terrorist group. Pictured here meeting then taoiseach Bertie Ahern while in the Irish army in 2008

Lisa said that she was never asked to fight, and even if she had wanted to, she wouldn't have been allowed as she had her daughter (pictured while in the Irish army)

Ms Smith told the BBC that the FBI had been to visit her twice and have taken her finger prints and DNA.

Speaking to the Irish Daily Mail in April, Lisa said: 'I want to go back to my country.'

'I wasn't a mother when I left. I came as a single person and I thought if I died here, I died, but when I had a child I became different, you know,' she said.

'There was actually women teach[ing] their husbands like how to have classes, you know, of how to use the gun, how to do this, how to do that.

Friends described Lisa as 'a party girl who enjoyed a good time' before she went through a bad breakup, converted to Islam and became radicalised (pictured in the Irish army)

Asked whether she would travel again to such a state, she insisted that she wouldn't as it was her 'biggest mistake' (pictured with her baby, now two)

'I went to one class just to see how the woman was teaching, you know. Just to see what the woman was teaching, and she reminded me of what I used to know because I forgot everything, you know. But I didn't fight...

'My husband many times said to me, 'You want me to buy you one?' I said no. He said 'It's just for self-defence'... I said: 'I don't want, I don't want.'

'I don't want to cause problems for anyone. I don't want to mix.

'I'm still me. I'm still like a good neighbour. I'm still a good friend. I'm just still me. I'm not, like, out to kill anyone. I don't believe in suicide attacks.'

Asked whether she would travel again to such a state, she insisted that she wouldn't as it was her 'biggest mistake'.

The Muslim community in Ireland had 'strongly rejected' Lisa's extremism, adding that she would have reported her if she had known the extent of her radicalisation

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said: 'This is a sensitive case and I want to reassure people that all relevant State agencies are closely involved.

'A multi-agency network is in place here comprising agency personnel who engage on an ongoing basis with international colleagues regarding emerging practice in relation to the complex issue of radicalisation.

'This network will coordinate engagement on a case by case basis as and when appropriate.'

In Britain, captured British Islamic State fighters will be brought back to the UK to be put on trial if it is the best place for them to face justice, the national security adviser has said.

Shamima Begum, the Bethnal Green schoolgirl who fled to Syria to join IS in 2015, was stripped of her British citizenship by then-home secretary Sajid Javid, prompting her to take legal action against the UK.

Ms Begum claims she married Dutch convert Yago Riedijk 10 days after arriving in IS territory.

She told The Times that she left Raqqa in January 2017 with her husband but her children, a one-year-old girl and a three-month-old boy, had both since died.

Her third child died shortly after he was born.