One of the most striking moments last week in Lebanon was how highly respected Irish troops were by the people of Kounin.
In a traditional gesture they held a dinner for them with senior community leaders.
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I’m off on leave. A real pity there was such a focus re Defence Bill on ideological guff conflating deployment of troops & neutrality.
Utterly disgraceful no attention to workplace risk of Bill. Good to see robust recommendations - it was raised once when
RACO visited the committee.

I made this video last Wednesday in UNP 2-45 to give people here at home an understanding of what the ground looks like.
On Friday the area was bombed again.
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Some articles setting the scene:
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A slight update to this article with quotes from Galway.

An emotional day for Pte Kedian’s family and comrades.

This is a pic of the DSM with honours. Na Fianna depicted by the looks. There is a lot of use of that imagery in the DF tradition. Especially around na Fianóglach.

Some images released by the Police.

Off work on some leave for a few days but watching with keen interest on activities of the Finnish State dealing with the cable damage. Fascinating response including messaging. Anyone suggesting what is happening in the Baltic can’t happen here is not paying attention.🧵

My tech savvy colleagues have done a spotlight on @thejournal.ie to highlight my South Sudan and Sudan pieces from the recent reporting trip.
Head onto the journal.ie if you haven't read them - important to give that ignored crisis some much needed attention.

While Ireland, thankfully, is having her usual peaceful transition of power something else is happening in Tbilisi, Georgia. A friend sent me this tonight from there.

Coming up after midnight: my last piece from the South Sudan reporting trip.
It is a wrap up of the situation in the country and the broader region. It is, without doubt, a forgotten conflict and a full on humanitarian disaster that will only get worse. @thejournal.ie

Prices are bedamned': Kanturk locals on the election and the Taoiseach's supermarket slip-up jrnl.ie/6554770

Coming up after midnight my latest article for @thejournal.ie from South Sudan on medics at a small hospital treating sick infants and refugees from the war in Sudan.
What I found was a hospital at capacity and in desperate need of help.

Last week I travelled to the South Sudan and the Sudan border to report on the humanitarian crisis gripping the African region. After midnight my first dispatch for @thejournal.ie finds people gripped in fear of a looming cholera epidemic.