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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
By Grinne N. Aodha

Irish premier welcomes that mother of peacekeeper killed in Lebanon can sue UN

The mother of Private Sean Rooney has been granted permission to sue the UN (Liam McBurney/PA) - (PA Archive)

Irish premier Micheal Martin has welcomed that the mother of an Irish peacekeeper killed in Lebanon has been given permission to sue the UN.

Sean Rooney, 24, from Newtowncunningham in Co Donegal, was killed when a convoy of Irish troops serving with a UN peacekeeping force was ambushed and fired upon on December 14 2022.

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