TÁNAISTE Micheál Martin has vowed that those responsible for the murder of Private Seán Rooney from Newtowncunningham will be brought to justice. The 24-year-old UN peacekeeper was killed on active service in the Lebanon in December 2022. He had been serving in Lebanon for the second time on peacekeeping duty with the United Nations when […]
Tánaiste visits Finner Camp ahead of deployment
The Tánaiste and Minister for Defence, Micheál Martin TD, today reviewed the 67th Infantry Group, who will shortly deploy to the Golan Heights as part of the United Nations’ Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). The Tánaiste was accompanied by the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Lieutenant General Sean Clancy, and the Assistant Secretary General […]
Two fallen UN soldiers remembered in Letterkenny
LAST Sunday, December 29, United Nations veterans from across the country gathered at Conwall cemetery in Letterkenny to dedicate a new memorial to Trooper Thomas Fennell who lost his life while serving with the UN in the Congo in 1960.