Tell the truth
In March 1989 three Irish soldiers on UN peacekeeping duties in southern Lebanon — Corporal Fintan Heneghan, Private Tomás Walsh, and Private Mannix Armstrong — died when they were caught in a land-mine explosion. For over two decades families and colleagues tried to establish the exact details of the tragedy but, despite extraordinary persistence, to little avail.
Private Armstrong’s wife Gráinne was widowed a month before she gave birth to their daughter Shannon. A year later — 1990 — she began a court battle which has just concluded with an amazing turn about by the army.
