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The UN Mortar Troupe made in Mullingar

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Pictured at McGhee Barracks, Kildare before departing for Cyprus in 1968. Top (l–r): Joe Clinton (Dalton Park), Barney Mullen (Patrick Street), Bill Clyne (Clonmore), Paul Nea (Ennell Court) and Paddy Nolan (Dublin). Middle (l–r): Peter Lonegan (Ginnell Terrace), Mick Lacey (The Green Road), Willie Mahony (Mullingar), Eddie Robinson (Ballinderry), Ray Darcy (Kildare) and Jim Doherty (Dalton Park). Front (l–r): Tony power (Munster), Phil Baxter (Castlepollard), Bill Earley (O’Growdy Drive/Grand Parade), Colonel Mick Dunne (Dublin, later Newlands), Christy Molloy (Patrick Street), Tom Irwin (The Grand Parade) and John ‘Porky’ Flynn (The Green).

In 1968, the 11th infantry of the United Nations peacekeeping force departed from Ireland to serve in Cyprus.

They were entering a decades-old conflict known as ‘The Cyprus Problem’ between the country’s population of Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The conflict arose when Greek Cypriots revolted against British occupying forces in 1955.

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