'He's never leaving again': Emotional scenes as soldiers welcomed home from war-ravaged Lebanon

'It was too hard this time' says Cork-based mother who welcomed son back home in Dublin Airport 

Corporeal Jamie McLaleer is reunited with his girlfriend Lynn Holdon, after arriving home. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

"I’ll be able to sleep for the first time in ten weeks — it was too hard this time." 

A Cork-based mother gave voice to the palpable sense of relief that hung in the air at Dublin Airport, as 200 members of the Defence Forces arrived home from a six-month deployment in war-ravaged Lebanon.