Des Breen reads an account of 156 Irish UN troops who battled impossible odds in the Congo, only for their courage to be airbrushed from history.

Giant robots have taken over Democratic Republic of Congo. Well, the traffic at least.

At least 129 people have died in Congo after a boat sank on a lake in a remote corner of the enormous country, it has emerged today.

Footage of the first full unit of the Irish Defence Forces to serve overseas more than 50 years ago has emerged online.

The MasterChef Ireland final runs over two nights, Wednesday and Thursday, on RTÉ Two. The remaining three contestants are Nicha Maguire, Tamarin Blackmur and Terry Lyons.

A MONUMENT unveiled yesterday in honour of a brave young Irish soldier, who has been missing in action for 50 years, will help ensure his memory and sacrifice endures, his family said.

By Michael Moriarty, Mercier Press; €19.99

FRANCE’S best-known mercenary Bob Denard, who had a hand in numerous African wars and coups d’etat over 30 years, has died at the age of 78.

At least 25 people were killed when a cargo plane crashed in Congo’s capital seconds after take-off.

DOZENS of people were feared dead after a cargo plane crashed into homes in Congo’s capital Kinshasa yesterday.

GANGS of militia have attacked five villages in south-eastern Congo, raping girls as young as eight years old and forcing more than 1,000 people to flee, a UN official said yesterday.

Gangs of militia have attacked five villages in south-eastern Congo, raping girls as young as eight and forcing more than 1,000 people to flee, a UN official said today.

UN officials defended peacekeepers who killed up to 60 militiamen in a gunbattle in Congo, saying the international troops were acting in self-defence and protecting civilians who had been terrorised for years.

IT has been called the Belgian Congo, the Congo, Zaire and more recently the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).