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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…
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…
My Charlie Bird Story
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…
Opening Statement to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence
The Irish United Nations Veterans Association (IUNVA) was formed at a meeting on the 10th Feb 1990 when a group of personnel led by Maj Gen Vincent Savino (Retd) and currently President of (IUNVA) identified a need to look after Veterans and their families who had fallen on hard times and where in some instances…
20th Anniversary of Deadly Attack on UN HQ in Iraq
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…
Death of retired Indian Army Col in Gaza
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres: ‘The Secretary-General was deeply saddened to learn of the death of a United Nations Department of Safety and Security (DSS) staff member and injury to another DSS staffer when their UN vehicle was struck as they travelled to the European Hospital…
