A memorial service was held on Monday, 16 Dec 2024 at Ballinamore, Co Leitrim, to unveil a Monument of Remembrance in honour of Recruit Gda Gary Sheehan (23) and Pte Patrick Kelly (36), 6 Inf Bn who were shot dead by the Provisional IRA forty one years ago on 16 Dec 1983. A joint DF…
From PRO IUNVA Michael Thompson’s photographs taken at the annual commemoration in Kilbehenny, Co Limerick for Tpr Patrick Mullins, 1 Mot Sqn who was killed on 15 Sep 1961 in Elisabethville, Katanga Province in the Republic of the Congo while serving with Armd Car Gp, 35 Inf Bn ONUC. His body was not recovered. The…
by PRO IUNVA On Wednesday 28 Aug 2024, the UN Secretary General António Guterres visited Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste to mark the 25th anniversary of its vote for independence, praising the national unity of the past, and pledging the UN’s unwavering support in the future. He was met at the airport by Timorese President…
From PRO IUNVA On Wednesday 19 Jun 2024, An Tánaiste and Minister for Defence, Micheál Martin TD visited IUNVA HQ in Arbour Hill, Dublin. During his visit he laid a wreath in memory of those who died on overseas service. He paid special tribute to the DF personnel who served in the United Nations Operation…
By PRO IUNVA On 29 May 2024, the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, paid tribute to all serving peacekeepers and to those who lost their lives in the service of the UN. The ceremony commenced with a wreath lay at the Peacekeepers Memorial Site at UN HQ New York in honour of the more than…
PRO IUNVA On 23 May 2024, UNIFIL FC Lt Gen Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz and the Lebanese Armed Forces paid tribute to Sgt Faridah Abd Rahman (36), a Malaysian peacekeeper who passed away suddenly at her base in Maarakeh. The UNIFIL head and the LAF representative also awarded posthumously the deceased peacekeeper UN and LAF medals…
I was saddened to hear that Charlie Bird, the former RTE journalist, has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease and I thought back to an encounter I had with him some twenty six years ago in the town of Shaqra in South Lebanon. In 1995, Shaqra was the second most important town in the Irish…
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