Post 6 Newsletter Vol 3, Issue 11 Dec 2022

In this article we look at the killing of Trooper Edward Gaffney, C Company 35 Infantry Battalion in action during Operation Morthor and the first Irish personnel who were captured by the Gendarmerie   Trooper Edward Gaffney Today we remember the 60th anniversary of the death of Trooper Edward Gaffney, C Company, 35 Infantry Battalion…

A ceremony was held at UN HQ New York on 6 Jun 2024 to remember the 188 personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 2023. The dead came from 37 countries and were working in 18 different UN agencies or missions as military, police or civilian…

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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…

In this article we remember the tragic events of sixty one years ago in Nov 1960, when Ireland suffered the highest toll on peacekeeping operations when nine men were killed by Baluba tribesmen near a bridge on the River Luweyeye on a dirt road approximately 23 Km from Niemba village in the northeast of Katanga…