RTÉ cameraman Jackie Merriman and sound recordist Paddy Hayes get ready to travel to Cyprus.

An RTÉ camera crew prepare to travel to cover Irish troops on duty with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, The 40th Irish Battalion is bound for Famagusta on the east coast of northern Cyprus.

Jack Merriman and Paddy Hayes weigh and pack flight cases for the transportation of film and cameras for their trip to Cyprus.

Reporter Kevin O'Kelly and photographer Roy Bedell joined Jack Merriman and Paddy Hayes to make up the RTÉ production team that travelled to Cyprus. They were there to film for the documentary 'Operation Cyprus' about the Irish Defence Forces on United Nations duty .

An RTÉ News report broadcast on 17 April 1964. (The footage shown here is mute.

'Operation Cyprus' was broadcast on 14 July 1964.

Operation Cyprus - RTÉ reporter Kevin O'Kelly ((left) with cameraman Jack Merriman (centre) and sound recordist Pat Hayes in Kyrenia, Cyprus, in 1964.
RTÉ reporter Kevin O'Kelly ((left) with cameraman Jack Merriman (centre) and sound recordist Pat Hayes in Kyrenia, Cyprus, in 1964.
Photo by Roy Bedell.
'Operation Cyprus' - President of the Republic of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios III with broadcaster Kevin O'Kelly (front) cameraman Jack Merriman (standing second left) and sound recordist Pat Hayes in Cyprus 1964. 2465_094
President of the Republic of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios III with broadcaster Kevin O'Kelly (front) cameraman Jack Merriman (standing second left) and sound recordist Pat Hayes in Cyprus 1964.
Photo by Roy Bedell.
RTÉ Television cameraman Jack Merriman with two Greek-Cypriot soldiers in Kyrenia, Cyprus, in 1964. 2465_093
RTÉ Television cameraman Jack Merriman with two Greek-Cypriot soldiers in Kyrenia, Cyprus in 1964. Photo by Roy Bedell.

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