A review is to be conducted into the controversial deaths of three Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon over 20 years ago.
Corporal Fintan Heneghan, Private Mannix Armstrong and Private Thomas Walsh were serving in the 64th Infantry Battalion with UNIFIL.
They were killed on 21 March 1989 when their truck hit a roadside bomb near the village of Brashit in South Lebanon.
The families of the men have been seeking explanations about the deaths.
Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence Alan Shatter said new information has come to light about the deaths.
Mr Shatter said he will shortly be appointing an independent person to carry out the review, which has been welcomed by soldiers' representative group, PDFORRA.
Minister Shatter said the new information had come to light in the course of preparing the State's defence against a legal case.
He said the information was not available in 2003 when the Department of Defence conducted a review of its records and concluded that no further inquiry was warranted.
However, the Minister said this new review will look at all relevant documents and interviews and produce a report in three or four months' time.
On the day of the deaths, the soldiers were collecting stones to fill a defence net around one of the Irish positions.
The Irish battalion withdrew from Lebanon in 2001. However, a large group of Irish peacekeepers of over 400 troops is expected to return to Lebanon at the end of May.
