The President Michael D Higgins will address a major conference on Irish prisoners overseas today.
The event in Dublin Castle will look at issues facing some 12-hundred Irish citizens in jails abroad.
Ibrahim Halawa - the Dublin teenager arrested during protests in Cairo - remains incarcerated in Egypt.
He's been held for two years without trial and Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan, who's visited Ibrahim, says there's little hope of him being freed:
