The case of Dundalk father John McNeela, whose son died on UN duty in Lebanon in 1989, will be raised by Louth TD Ruairí Ó Murchú in Leinster House this week.
Michael McNeela was just 21 when he was killed in Lebanon in 1989 while on his second tour of duty for the UN. His father, John McNeela who is 84, went public last week and revealed that the refusal by the Department of Defence to allow him to continue to collect the small monthly allowance, given to his late wife, Kathleen, under the Army
Pensions Act, left him ‘poor’.
We spoke to Deputy O’Murchu on the programme last week when this case went public, but he says that since then Mr McNeela has not had any contact from government
departments in the whole week since it went public.
Deputy O’Murchu spoke to us again on The Agenda this morning to give us the latest on this.
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