Gardaí serving with the United Nations Police (Unpol) in Cyprus were awarded UN peacekeeping medals yesterday.
The ceremony was held in Pyla, the only village in the divided island's buffer zone where Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots live side by side.
The UN secretary general's special representative in Cyprus, Unficyp chief of mission Zbigniew Wlosowicz, presided at the ceremony.
Also present were Irish Ambassador John Swift and Asst Commissioner of An Garda Síochána Noel Smyth.