An Irish suspected ISIS bride spends 20 hours a day locked in a cell in solitary confinement at Limerick Prison.
Lisa Smith, 38, was charged with ISIS membership earlier this month and is being held in a segregation wing in the prison.
She denies the allegations and is claiming that she went to live in the declared Islamic State just to learn teachings of the Quran.
Smith 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.
A source told the Mirror: 'She is segregated from other inmates and spends most her time reading books in her cell. She is also allowed to watch TV.
'She's locked up for 20 hours a day and only allowed out for four hours, to use the exercise yard or gym and the like.'
The source also said that she wears a black traditional abaya robe while she's in her cell.
She has applied to have visitors over the festive season but the decision will not be found out until just days before.
The source added: 'Contrary to what most people might think, Christmas time is horrible when it comes to visits from family and friends.
'You would imagine that most people would be delighted to see their loved ones but if anything they end up killing each other.'
Smith was deported from Turkey and put on the first scheduled Turkish Airlines flight to Ireland on December 1.
She was met by counter-terrorism police who have been investigating her activities and can be questioned for up to three days.
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.
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.
'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'.
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.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
