Irish peacekeeping troops in Lebanon have 'ample supply' of water and food as it stands says Defence Forces chief

"Part of our mitigations in advance of this escalation was of course to have supplies for 30 days plus available in all locations of the Irish personnel overseas," he said. "The last couple of days have of course initiated that supply chain. We have ample supply of water and food and common necessities available at this time and of course as we go through, day by day, the force commander will, in time, decide what time replenishment of those resources will be."

"We are part of a wider force made up of quite a number of troop contributing countries," said Mr Martin. "I just met with the President of Vietnam yesterday, we are all part of wider UN peacekeeping in different parts of the world and so we operate under that common command. But we will work with the authorities, keep everything under review in terms of how the situation progresses."

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