Tuesday, October 15, 2024
🇮🇪 “Ireland’s peacekeepers in Lebanon are putting their lives on the line. I know – I was one of them”
Since 1958, Ireland has sent troops to global conflicts on almost every continent. We have had a peacekeeping battalion with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) in south Lebanon on a continuous basis since 1978. The relationship is so deep-rooted that in the Irish area of operations, close to the border with Israel, there are local Lebanese people who speak English with broad Irish accents.
Senator Tom Clonan, in The Guardian.