United Nations Peacekeepers Medal (Ireland)

The United Nations Peacekeepers Medal (Irish: An Bonn Chosantóirí Siochána na Náisiún Aontaithe) is awarded to those members of the Irish Defence Forces or Chaplaincy Service who have served overseas on a United Nation Mission or United Nations Mandated Mission.

Members, both current and former, of the Defence Forces or Chaplaincy Service who have served with a United Nations peacekeeping mission and have earned a United Nations Medal are eligible for award of this Irish Defence Force honour.

In those cases the medal is awarded posthumously and presented to the next of kin.

The obverse of the medal depicts Éire, a national personification of Ireland, standing along a shoreline while releasing a dove over the sea.

The reverse bears the legend UNITED NATIONS FOR PEACE, at the top in Irish and below in English.