Survivor of Niemba ambush Tom Kenny dies

Tom Kenny from Dublin at the 40th Anniversary Niemba Ceremony in Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin, 11/11/2000. Photo: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Tom Kenny, a survivor of the Niemba massacre in the Congo in 1960, has died.

Former trooper Tom Kenny, of Ballyfermot, Dublin, with Joe Fitzpatrick, became well known after he survived the ambush at Niemba in the Congo in November 1960.