Hero trooper Shane Kearney is coming home from Lebanon, it has emerged.
It can be revealed that the soldier – injured in the incident in which Private Sean Rooney was killed last Wednesday night – is now well enough to be moved. The Cavalry Corps trooper, 22, is to be flown back to Ireland later today.
The Defence Forces confirmed Trooper Kearney would be moved to Beaumont Hospital after landing in an air ambulance at Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel, South County Dublin this afternoon. It is the same Air Corps base to which the remains of Pte Rooney were brought on Monday.