On 7 Sep 2023, personnel from 21 Ircon with the EU Training Mission to Mali (EUTM) received their EUTM MALI service medal from Lt Gen Michiel van der Laan of the Royal Dutch Army who is the Director General European Union Military Staff and Director Military Planning and Conduct Capability. 21Ircon is the final unit…
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By PRO IUNVA A commemoration ceremony was held on 19 Aug 2023 to mark the 20th anniversary of the truck bomb attack on 19 Aug 2003 on the UN Headquarters at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq that killed 22 people including the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello…
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Post No 6, Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 11 Click for Article Below is the content in audio format
Post No 6, Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 11 Click for Article Below is the content in audio format
By PRO IUNVA Four Irish citizens died during the month of January while serving with the United Nations, two were members of the DF and two were civilians. We remember the killing of Seán Devereux (28) on 2 Jan 1993 while working for the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Somalia. He was…
By PRO IUNVA This article covers the death of Cpl John Geoghegan B Coy 36 Inf Bn on 28 Dec 1961, he was the last member of the unit to die in 1961. On 24 Dec 1961 at approximately 1600 ours Cpl John Geoghegan (41) and a Pte were on guard duty at Post No…
By PRO IUNVA This article recalls the death of the thirteenth Irish casualty during the United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC). Cpl Liam Kelly (22) was from Ballydonnell, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny. He joined the DF at the Curragh Training Camp in Jul 1958 and on completion of recruit training he passed out as the…
By Pro IUNVA Cpl Thomas N Reynolds (35) was a member of the Tpt Pl, HQ Coy, 44 Inf Bn and was injured in road traffic accident on Saturday 23 Dec 1978 when the Land Rover he was travelling in went off the road near Tibnine while travelling to Haddatha. He died from his injuries…
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