UN files dispute army account of Lebanon deaths

MILITARY documents uncovered at the United Nations have undermined the Irish Army’s version of how three Irish peacekeepers were killed in the Lebanon in March 1989.

This Friday, Defence Minister Alan Shatter is due to receive an independent report into the deaths of Corporal Fintan Heneghan, Private Tomás Walsh and Private Mannix Armstrong, at the hands of Lebanese rebels.

The bereaved families have claimed the men were sent into the path of the roadside bomb without proper consideration of the threat or the protection of routine anti-landmine safety measures.