Brave Irish peacekeeper Sean Rooney’s best friend has paid an emotional tribute to “the most kind-hearted caring person in the world”.
Christopher O’Neill said he and Sean were like brothers and that on hearing he’d been gunned down in the Lebanon: “I could feel my heart break.”
An Irish Air Corps Casa aircraft was last night on standby in Malta for the repatriation of Private Rooney’s body, the Defence Forces confirmed.
