‘Walking on the shoulders of giants’: Irish peacekeepers continue to serve with dignity in Lebanon

Micheál Martin has today laid a wreath at a memorial for 47 Irish Defence Forces soldiers who died serving in Lebanon. Picture: Neil Michael

Some of the steps Lieutenant Colonel Denis Hanly and the soldiers he commands take as they serve in Lebanon fall on the same ground where Irish peacekeepers who died once tread.

Some of the paths they will cross while serving in Lebanon will be near where Defence Forces soldiers were shot dead or blown up.