Memorial to soldiers who died on overseas duty

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea will unveil a memorial in Tipperary this weekend to Irish soldiers who died in action overseas.

The event, in St Mary’s Garden of Remembrance in Thurles, coincides with the UN’s International Day of the Peacekeeper.

The memorial was organised by the Duras Eile Eliogarty Memorial Committee whose chairman, John Wort, said: “We want to make people more aware of their local and national history.