Three javelin weapons have been fired in the Glen of Imaal in Co Wicklow, as the 123rd Infantry Battalion prepares for deployment to south Lebanon next month as part of the UNIFIL forces there.
Eighty-six personnel will be travelling for the first time and they come from 25 counties across Ireland.
Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Mac Eoin is the Commanding Officer of the 123rd Battalion and he said conditions on the ground in Lebanon are currently tense. "There are exchanges of fire, both north and south across the blue line," he explained but, but said soldiers there who have had to take shelter in position in recent weeks are well trained."The soldiers are responding well to it, they would have been through exactly the same training and process that we're going through today.
"And that training is designed actually to prepare the soldiers for just that type of scenario," Lt Col Mac Eoin said.
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