Shot Irish soldier’s family upset at suicide verdict

THE family of an Irish soldier found shot dead inside a secure base in Afghanistan last September are “upset” at a US Army finding that she committed suicide.

Ciara Durkin, a 30-year-old corporal in the American National Guard and originally from Galway, died in mysterious circumstances, from a single gunshot to the back of the head.

The Pentagon initially reported Cpl Durkin had been killed in action, but later revised its statement to say that she had died of injuries from a “non-combat-related incident”.