Further details have emerged regarding last night's training injury to Lieutenant Kenneth Sheehan at Kilworth, Co Cork.

NEIGHBOURING north Kerry and west Limerick parishes were last night trying to come to terms with tragedies that claimed the lives of a young solider and a schoolboy.

Minister for Defence Willie O’Dea and the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Lieutenant General Dermot Earley have offered their condolences to the family of young soldier Aidan Holly, who died tragically yesterday in Spain.

THREE families had to be evacuated from their homes in Co Clare yesterday after an explosive device was planted under a car near the village of Doonbeg.

A SENIOR army officer will make a nostalgic trip to the Lebanon next weekend to a spot where he was nearly blown up by a mortar.

I SALUTE everyone who was involved in organising the Andrea Bocelli concert in Collins Barracks, Cork, last Friday night.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea pledged yesterday to monitor closely the situation in Liberia where a new battalion of 430 Irish troops are set to join a United Nations mission at the end of the month.