UN to give family of Private Sean Rooney more details about his death

Private Seán Rooney (pictured) and three colleagues were fired on in Al-Aqibiya on the night of December 14, 2022. File photo: Defence Forces

The UN is to give Private Sean Rooney’s family as-yet unpublished details about the slain peacekeeper’s death.

To date, the UN has always insisted its final Board of Inquiry report — which is based on Unifil’s so-called Administrative Report into the incident — could not be made public.