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- ↑ Mosque in Galway vandalised in early morning attack by Sorcha Pollack, Irish Times, Monday, 29 July 2019.
- ↑ Government should regulate mosques and do checks, says Imam Ibrahim Noonan by Cormac O'Keefe, Irish Examiner, 31 July 2016.
- ↑ Account Of Ibrahim Noonan Why Ahmadi.