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Post No 6 Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 3 August 2023
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Post 6 Newsletter Vol 3, Issue 10 Oct 2022
Post No 6, Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 9 Click for Article Below is the content in audio format
First Chaplin to the Defence Forces to Serve Overseas
By PRO IUNVA This article recalls the service of the first DF chaplain who deployed on overseas service with the United Nations in Jul 1960. Fr Cyril Patrick Crean was known as Fr Paddy and he was ordained in Rome in 1933. He worked in Harold’s Cross in Dublin before he joined the British Army…
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
By PRO IUNVA Thirty five years ago, on 29 Sep 1988, the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided that the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces. The Nobel Committee announced “The peacekeeping forces of the United Nations have, under extremely difficult conditions, contributed to reducing tensions where an armistice has…
Post 6 Newsletter Vol 4, Issue 1 April 2023
Post No 6, Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 11 Click for Article Below is the content in audio format
Maj Gen Maureen O’Brien DSM ̶ Stand-Down
We congratulate Maj Gen Maureen O’Brien who was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, with Honour at her stand down parade on Friday 13 Oct 2023 at McKee Bks at the end of forty two years service in the Defence Forces. Gen O’Brien was born in Galway City in 1960 and after she finished her B…
