'Poignant' deployment of Irish soldiers as UN mission to wind down

Irish troops on parade at Camp Shamrock near the border with Lebanon and Israel. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

A ceremony held before the deployment of more than 300 Irish peacekeepers to south Lebanon was “poignant”, ahead of the mission’s end, the Tánaiste said.

Three hundred and sixty two Irish soldiers are to be deployed to south Lebanon from next week, as part of a peacekeeping mission of which Ireland has been a part for decades.