Irish troops arrive home to mark end of peacekeeping mission in Syria

Commander Paul Conlon, from Roscommon, his children, Senan, Oisin and Saoirse mother, Janice and wife Brenda pictured this evening at Dublin airport where over 120 Irish troops from the 68th Infantry Group, United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) returned home, following a six-month deployment to Syria.

More than 130 Irish troops arrived home from Syria on Friday, marking the end of the Defence Forces’ 10 years of peacekeeping in the area.

Ireland has now withdrawn its troops from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), who are deployed to monitor the border between Israel and Syria.