Around 70 Royal Irish reservists have returned to Northern Ireland following a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cyprus.
The men and women from 2 Royal Irish were part of the largest deployment of British Army reservists in decades, as part of the 6 Rifles battlegroup.
The soldiers spent the last six months based in the United Nations Protected Area on the outskirts of the city of Nicosia, part of a reserve who are kept at constant readiness to respond to challenges across the island.
2 Royal Irish have recently returned to Northern Ireland from a deployment in Cyprus (MoD Crown Copyright/PA)
A 180km buffer zone stretching across the island has been in place since the Cyprus Emergency in 1974.
Royal Irish reservists back home in Northern Ireland after peacekeeping mission
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