Hundreds of family and friends attended Custume Barracks in Athlone to formally bid farewell to the 107th Infantry Battalion, which leaves for Lebanon next month.
Thu, 25 Oct, 2012
Troops have been put through their paces before deployment to Lebanon next month.
Fri, 12 Oct, 2012
President Michael D Higgins today sent Christmas greetings to troops in Lebanon during a live video link from the Áras.
Mon, 12 Dec, 2011
Irish troops will be put through their paces today ahead of their deployment to Lebanon.
Tue, 25 Oct, 2011
President Mary McAleese will visit Camp Shamrock in the Lebanon this morning to visit peace-keeping troops and present medals to 72 personnel on their first overseas mission.
Sat, 15 Oct, 2011
President McAleese will visit Irish peacekeeping troops in Lebanon this weekend on her final trip abroad.
Tue, 11 Oct, 2011
Members of the defence forces have been deployed to south Lebanon to quell tensions. While their commander attests to their readiness for the mission, if violence escalates it could prevent a visit by President McAleese, writes Political Reporter Juno McEnroe in Tibnin.
Sat, 23 Jul, 2011
IRISH troops on the frontline in south Lebanon are tasked with trying to keep a lid on tensions between the warring sides boiling over and threatening a fragile peace pact.
Fri, 22 Jul, 2011
THE commander of UN peacekeeping troops in Lebanon said Irish soldiers have been given one of the country’s most dangerous “hotspots”, close to the contentious border with Israel.
Thu, 21 Jul, 2011
CAPTAIN Aileen Leonard is in charge of the Defence Forces’ mortar troops in the Lebanon. Standing in the midday 35C heat at the Irish headquarters in Camp Shamrock, the Cork woman explained that she was in charge of 30 Irish soldiers in her unit.
RTÉ is to televise a live Christmas Day link-up with Irish peacekeepers serving in Chad and Kosovo, it emerged today.
Mon, 15 Dec, 2008
More than 1,600 troops paraded through Dublin today, with President Mary McAleese taking the salute, to mark the withdrawal of Ireland's United Nations force from Lebanon.
Sun, 25 Nov, 2001
The tricolour has been lowered at Camp Shamrock in the Lebanon this morning, ending 23 years of Irish peacekeeping in the region.
Tue, 13 Nov, 2001
The Minister for Defence, Michael Smith, is due to arrive at Camp Shamrock to supervise the latest stage in the withdrawal of Irish forces from the Lebanon.
Mon, 12 Nov, 2001
Irish peacekeepers today celebrated their last St Patrick’s Day in south Lebanon, where they had been stationed for more than two decades.
Thu, 15 Mar, 2001
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