Irish-American was SEAL who shot Bin Laden

An Irish-American from "the most Irish town in America" has been named as the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden.

Robert O’Neill, 38, from Butte, Montana, was part of the SEAL Team Six that carried out the raid on Bin Laden’s compound in May 2011, and is due to share his story in an upcoming documentary on Fox News.

The highly decorated serviceman left the Navy SEALs recently after 16 years’ service. Mr O’Neill was one of 23 SEALs who took part in the nighttime raid in Abbottabad in Pakistan. He was the last man to see the mastermind of the September 11 attacks alive before shooting him three times in the head at close range.