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Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi urged on Monday the Lebanese state to seize all illegal weapons in the country and embark on implementing UN resolution 1701. Rahi’s calls came following a deadly incident that claimed the life of an Irish soldier of the UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) operating in southern Lebanon.…

Sean Rooney, 23, was shot dead while on United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon last week

A member of the Irish Defence Forces, Private Rooney, was killed on active service when his convoy came under attack in Lebanon this week.

Sean Rooney was murdered on Wednesday after his vehicle was ambushed by a violent mob in Lebanon.

Grieving Holly McConnellogue says brave Sean, who was gunned down in the Lebanon while on a UN peacekeeping mission, was doing a second stint in the war-torn Middle Eastern country so that he could save for their wedding day.

The United Nations' peacekeeping force in south Lebanon on Friday urged Beirut to ensure a "speedy" investigation into an Irish soldier's shooting death near the Israeli border. The peacekeeper's convoy came under fire late Wednesday near the village of Al-Aqbiya, the Irish military said, wounding three other members of the…

The vehicle is presumed to have got lost in the darkness and ended up in the small coastal town

The 22-year-old from Killeagh in east Cork was on his second tour of duty in the Lebanon

Private Sean Rooney died after the convoy he was a specialist driver in came under attack