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Evening Standard
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Rebecca Black

Delay in trial over peacekeeper’s death in Lebanon ‘not acceptable’ – Harris

A photograph of Private Sean Rooney outside Holy Family Church in Co Louth ahead of his funeral mass in 2022 (Brian Lawless/PA) - (PA Archive)

Delays in progressing the trial of those indicted for the killing of Private Sean Rooney are “simply not acceptable” to the Irish Government, Tanaiste Simon Harris has said.

Mr Harris said he would be conveying that message “in the strongest possible terms” during political meetings in Lebanon.

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