Helen McEntee’s trip to Lebanon cancelled following Defence Forces concern

The Minister for Defence Helen McEntee had been due to meet Irish peacekeepers deployed as part of Unifil mission

It comes after a Polish member of Ireland’s joint battalion with Poland sustained minor injuries from a “roadside device”, while three Indonesian peacekeepers were killed in other blasts.

The Minister for Defence had to abandon a trip to Lebanon on security advice from the Defence Forces.

Helen McEntee had been due to meet Irish peacekeepers deployed as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) but the visit was called off following the military’s operational advice that it was “not tenable”.