Son of Jadotville siege hero to launch website about moral injury

Leo Quinlan, son of CMDT Pat Quinlan who led the Siege of Jadotville in The Congo. He has become a keynote speaker on moral injury, having addressed US Military veterans’ associations on four separate occasions as well as the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Picture: Don MacMonagle

The son of an Irish soldier hero is about to spearhead the launch of an international website highlighting to international military leaders and politicians that they can’t abdicate their long-term responsibility to those under their command who have suffered an extreme form of psychological trauma in the line of duty, which is known as moral injury. 

Leo Quinlan, a former Irish army commandant and son of the legendary man of the same rank, Pat Quinlan, who led the successful and now worldwide-recognised textbook battle defence at the Siege of Jadotville in the Congo in 1961, is setting up the site which is due to go live in the next few weeks.