Letters to the Editor: Fitting tribute to Irish soldier who died a hero in Lebanon
Private Billy Kedian's remains being borne to the cemetery on a gun carriage during his funeral in Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo, in 1999. Picture: Keith Heneghan/GreenGraph
On Saturday last I drove to Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo, to commemorate the memory of Pte Billy Kedian, who died a hero in Lebanon as a result of an Israeli direct air strike on C Company’s HQ in 1999. Billy got all his men safely into an underground bunker but died at the entrance, as the last man in. He would have been 45 on his birthday on Saturday.
This commemoration was very well organised by the committee of Mayo officials, local leaders, and supported by Senator Gerard Craughwell, and Cathal Berry TD.
