It comes after Natasha Rooney expressed disappointment at a lack of justice for her son Sean, who was killed in Lebanon in 2022.

The new sonar capability will be used on Irish Naval vessels to monitor activities in the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone.

A formal ‘demarche’ has been served on the Israeli government through the UN.

Simon Harris said Ireland’s ‘proud tradition’ in peacekeeping cannot be held up by ‘paralysis at UN’.

The Defence Forces announced the death in service of Corporal Terry Smyth (32) ‘with great sadness’.