A group of Irish peacekeepers are due to return from Lebanon to Dublin this morning, following a major security operation to ...

Instead of boarding the chartered aircraft back to the homecoming in Dublin Airport, military police transported the troops back to Camp Shamrock, the Irish Unifil headquarters in southern Lebanon.

Lieutenant General Sean Clancy said all troops in Camp Shamrock at the time of the strike on Wednesday afternoon are safe and well, with the Katyusha rocket landing in an unoccupied area of the base.