Memorial planned to honour Irish victims of Vietnam War

Co Clare is to be an unlikely location for a €140,000 war memorial to the 29 Irish men who died in the Vietnam War.

Most served with the US army, while a smaller number were in the Australian army. Some 2,500 Irish soldiers served in US and other armies in Vietnam between 1959 and 1975.

The project is being led by the Irish Vietnam Veterans Memorial Project in conjunction with the Ennis Civic Trust, which has built an extensive trail of sculptures around the town over the past 22 years.