Private Rooney, 24, from Co Donegal, was killed while serving in Lebanon when his UN peacekeeping convoy was attacked on 14 ...

PROSECUTORS in Lebanon have appealed the sentences handed down over the murder of hero soldier Sean Rooney. Simon Harris ...

A formal appeal over the leniency of the sentences of those indicted for the murder of Private Sean Rooney has been lodged, ...

The appeals include the sentences handed down for the attempted killing of Trooper Shane Kearney, Corporal Joshua Phelan and ...

Five men were also handed down smaller sentences or fines over the December 2022 killing of the Donegal soldier. Now Lebanon ...

Natasha Rooney said she wanted to express her family’s "extreme disappointment and heartbreak" at recent court proceedings in ...

It is ‘unsatisfactory’ that the key man convicted for the killing of Irish peacekeeper Seán Rooney in 2022 is still at large, the Taoiseach has said. Micheál Martin was speaking after the man was ...

Harris was asked for his reaction to comments Private Rooney’s mother Natasha made yesterday, in which she said the Tánaiste ...

Pte Seán Rooney was in an armoured UN vehicle which came under fire while travelling to Beirut on 14 December 2022.

The main defendant at the military tribunal in Beirut indicted for the murder of Irish Defence Forces private Seán Rooney has been sentenced to death, it is understood - however, he remains at ...

A Military Tribunal in Beirut today convicted Mohammad Ayyad for the murder of Private Rooney and has sentenced him to death.

Prosecutors in Lebanon have formally lodged an appeal against the sentences handed down to those indicted for the murder of Private Seán Rooney. Tánaiste Simon Harris, who wrote to the Lebanese ...