Lebanon deaths - Two decades in search of the truth

Relatives of Corporal Fintan Heneghan, Private Mannix Armstrong, and Private Thomas Walsh have finally, after more than 22 years, received apologies on behalf of the Army from Lieutenant General Seán McCann, the Chief of Defence Forces, and on behalf of the state from Alan Shatter, the Minister for Justice.

The apologies were in relation to the deaths of the three Irish soldiers while serving as peacekeepers with the United Nations in the Lebanon on March 21, 1989.

The three soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb, and their families have long argued that they died needlessly. One family had to go to court in search of justice.