Kildare students stopped going to Germany over terrorism fears

Kildare students have been stopped travelling to Germany on a charity trip due to ISIS terrorist fears.

A number of DCU undergraduates from Naas, Newbridge and Ballysax were due to take part in the annual 'Beg Steal Borrow' initiative to Berlin raise cash for good causes last week.

However college authorities have been forced to postpone the event after an international soccer match in German city Hanover on Wednesday night was abandoned due to fears of an Islamic bomb attack.

Naas students Emma Hanlon and her partner Devlin Nugent were attempting to blag their way to Berlin against 200 other students raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society as part of Movember. Big-hearted Newbridge student Orla Furey and her pal Deirdre Conway (both 18) from Ballysax were also planning to take part in the popular event.

It emerged at the weekend that a Islamic extremist with an address in Co Kildare is meeting other terrorists for weekly services outside of Dublin. Counter-terrorism networks identified a number of jihandis who are being closely monitored by the Gardai counter-terrorism unit and they have addresses in Kildare, Dublin, Longford and Louth. A total of 130 people died in the attacks on bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the Stade de France in Paris on November 13.

Brussels has been in lockdown all weekend as terror alerts were elevated to their highest levels and other European countries have also increased security in major cities. The Co Kildare students had already set up donations websites so that friends,families and organisations could contribute to their chosen charity.

It's expected that all the money will now be collected for a re-scheduled Beg Steal Borrow event in early 2016.

Hundreds of Kildare people have already signed books of condolences for the Paris attacks in Kildare County Council in Naas - and in Athy which is twinned with French town Grand Villiers. A Council spokeswoman said the gesture was "to remember and show solidarity with the victims of the terrible attacks ..."