Government to send army rangers to Kabul to help repatriate Irish citizens 

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney is expected to make an announcement on Monday evening. 

The Government is to deploy the army’s special forces unit to assist in the evacuation of Irish citizens trapped in Kabul, it is understood.

Nine members of the country’s elite Army Ranger Wing and two senior Department of Foreign Affairs officials will be involved in the mission, which is expected to depart from Dublin on Monday evening or in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to the Irish Times.