Ireland will continue sending troops on overseas missions even if the mandate for Unifil, the peacekeeping force in southern ...

The UNIFIL peacekeeper, Irish national Private Sean Rooney, was killed in December 2022 while traveling to Beirut in an ...

Pte Seán Rooney was in an armoured UN vehicle which came under fire while travelling to Beirut on 14 December 2022.

Prosecutors in Lebanon have formally lodged an appeal against the sentences handed down over the killing of an Irish soldier on a UN peacekeeping mission. Pte Seán Rooney was in an armoured UN vehicle ...

Israel has accused a senior Lebanese intelligence officer of obstructing the investigation into the murder of Irish ...

AN IRISH ARMY officer deployed in Hungary with the EU Battlegroup has said he and his fellow troops are part of the “European Union’s projection of military power”. Commandant Liam McDonnell ...

Matthew Morrison, an Irish immigrant who resided in the U.S. for 40 years, self-deported to Ireland on July 21 (Katie Moore/The Marshall Project). There’s a city in Northern Ireland with two names.

The 24 year old was the first Irish soldier to die while on UN peacekeeping duty in Lebanon in more than 20 years. Three others were injured in the incident.

Catholics, like Morrison, call it Derry. Matthew Morrison, third from the right, poses for a photograph with fellow Irish Republican Army soldiers inside a Northern Ireland prison in 1976.