Forces insist mission has low risk level

SOLDIERS leaving for the Lebanon later this month will face a low threat-level despite the volatile situation, the army said yesterday.

There are no indications that Hezbollah is planning to resume the conflict which ravaged the country earlier this year and which ended in August.

The news emerged yesterday as Defence Minister Willie O’Dea reviewed members of the 158-strong 34th Infantry Group based at Collins Barracks — more than half of whom are from Cork — who are due to depart for Lebanon on October 31.