Ireland has lost 29 soldiers in action (one is missing, presumed dead) during its 31 years with the United Nations Peacekeeping Corps.
Report shows archive footage of Irish troops prepare to leave for Congo in July 1960.
Funeral of soldiers who died in the Niemba ambush in the Congo in November 1960.
UN troops in Lebanon in 1978.
Funeral of the first Irish victim in Lebanon, Private Stephen Griffin, in 1980.
Irish troops in barracks.
Footage of the kidnapping of Don Tidey Leitrim in 1983, during which Private Patrick Kelly was killed.
Irish troops in Lebanon.
Funerals of Irish soldiers killed in Lebanon.
The reporter is Alasdair Jackson.
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