The number of Irish navy patrols looks set to rise this year after successive years of dramatic reductions in activity.

Last year, it wound down its contribution of 133 troops to the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission on the Golan Heights ...

The mission to Lebanon – known in the Defence Forces simply as The Leb – has been an integral part of Irish fabric for almost ...

"It is not over yet and there is plenty of time to save it," a source said. Since 1978, thousands of Irish troops have served ...

The organisation representing officers in the Defence Forces is advising those aiming to become a cadet to first enlist as a ...

The southern people consider the Irish soldiers are part of the community. They are used to living with the Irish since 1978" ...

A new aircraft equipped for maritime surveillance has been delivered to the Defence Forces at Casement Aerodrome. This is the ...

One of the objectives in Donald Trump's 20-point Gaza peace plan is an International Stablisation Force, and while there is ...

Ireland has taken delivery of its third and final Airbus Defence and Space (DS) C295 aircraft, and the first to be configured ...

The Boeing B-52s left Barksdale Air Force Base at Shreveport in the state of Louisiana, flight tracking data reviewed by BBC ...

Catherine Connolly, who has the support of a broad alliance of left leaning politicians including the biggest opposition ...

A HOME was evacuated following the discovery of a “viable” pipe bomb in Co Carlow yesterday. Gardai carried out a planned ...