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Post 6 Newsletter Vol 3, Issue 11 Dec 2022
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First Ministerial visit to UNIFIL 03/10/1978
Forty five years ago, the first Irish unit to deploy to South Lebanon received a visit from the Minister for Defence Bobby Molloy who was accompanied by Lt Gen Carl O’Sullivan COS, HE Eamon Ó Tuathail Irish Ambassador to Lebanon, Comdt Jimmy Flynn ADC to COS and M Healy Sec DOD. This was the first…
Post No 6 Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 5 December 2023
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Ceremony – UNTSI – 31 Oct 2024
On Thursday 31 Oct 2024 a ceremony was held in UNTSI, the Mil Col, to unveil a special display to the memory of Col Justin MacCarthy who was killed in a traffic accident in Leopoldville, Republic of Congo on 27 Oct 1960, while serving as Dep COS and Chief Ops Offr at HQ ONUC. Col…
40th Anniversary – Killings at Derrada Woods – Ballinamore, Co Leitrim
On 24 Nov, 1983, Don Tidey who was the managing director of the Quinnsworth supermarket group was kidnapped by PIRA close to his home in South Co Dublin. A nationwide search was undertaken by An Garda Síochána supported by Óglaigh na hÉireann operating in aid to the civil power. In mid Dec 1983 the search…
Elisabethville Congo 1961- Article 1 of 3
ONUC – Operation Unokat 5 – 20 December 1961 INTRODUCTION This is the first of three articles to cover the fighting in Elisabethville during Dec 1961 where battle casualties for 35 Inf Bn and 36 Inf Bn amounted to 4 Killed and 32 Wounded. The breakdown of the figures are: 35 Inf Bn had 7…
