400 defence personnel overseas for Christmas

MORE than 400 servicemen and women will be representing Ireland on overseas missions this Christmas, the Defence Forces said yesterday.

400 defence personnel overseas for Christmas

Almost two-thirds of those — 272 troops — are in the Kosovo Force, theUN-mandated NATO-led peacekeeping mission.

A further 40 personnel are in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the remainder on military observer missions and in headquarters in Afghanistan, Congo, Ethiopia, Israel, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liberia, Macedonia, Serbia, Syria and Western Sahara.

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