From the Archives: September 5th, 1960

Just back from the newly independent – and politically unstable – Democratic Republic of Congo, Cathal O’Shannon described the deployment of Irish troops on their first UN peacekeeping mission, amid hostilities that saw Joseph Mobutu seize power in a coup two months later






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