A UK minister says RAF interception missions in Irish airspace need prior Irish government consent, highlighting Ireland’s ...

AN explosive new survey has revealed fury in Ireland’s Defence Forces with one in four experiencing “unacceptable behaviour” ...

IRELAND’S Defence Forces will not reach full strength “within any realistic timeframe” under current recruitment rates, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the “Support Ukraine” Plenary Session. Photo: Ukraine’s President’s Office Irish Foreign Minister Simon ...

An Irish Defence Forces maritime surveillance aircraft appears to have been deployed to monitor an oil tanker, that has been pursued over recent weeks by the United States, in the North Atlantic.

Two convoys of vehicles from the Irish Defence Forces' stock have arrived in Poland for donation to Ukraine, Ireland's Tánaiste and Minister for Defence, Simon Harris TD, confirmed today, Thursday, ...

All members of an Irish Defence Forces battalion "are well and accounted for" after they came under "small arms fire" in south Lebanon. The incident happened at about 18:30 Ireland time (20:30 Lebanon ...

Catherine Connolly has been criticised for her claims that Ireland ‘does not need an army’ during a Dáil debate last year. If elected President, Ms Connolly will automatically become head of the Irish ...

A group of Irish Defence Forces veterans have set off on a 170km march along Ireland’s historic Famine Trail, raising vital funds for Óglaigh Náisiúnta na hÉireann (ONE), a national charity supporting ...

The ARW was officially activated on March 16, 1980 (which means that these very words are being typed on the unit’s forty-fifth birthday). Although an Army unit, personnel from the Naval Service and ...

Two years ago, we wrote in these pages about the sorry state of Irish defense and security that, we have on good authority, prompted a question on the matter to the then Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar ...