Tributes paid to Irish peacekeeper who 'paid the ultimate price in the service of peace'

Irish UN peacekeepers investigate at the scene where unidentified open gunfire came on a UN peacekeeper convoy in Al-Aqbiya village, south Lebanon. Picture: AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari

Tributes have been paid to a member of the Irish Defence Forces killed while on duty in Lebanon on Wednesday. 

One of the members of 121st Infantry Battalion of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), died after the convoy they were travelling in came under "small arms fire" at around 9.15pm Irish time yesterday.