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 ...

Ireland is scaling up its maritime security, with the Defence Forces set to join a European intelligence-sharing pact. Tánaiste Simon Harris has also directed officials in the Department of Defence to ...

The Department of Defence told The Irish Times that a €1.5 million upgrade ... Under the Government’s subsequent White Paper on Defence, a civil/military project team was established to ...

The Defence Forces are to deploy 50 troops to help in the search for missing Kerry farmer Michael Gaine. Gardaí are ...

A spokesperson for the Irish Defence Forces also confirmed the ... "Fifty personnel from 1 Brigade will be deployed in an Aid to the Civil Power (ATCP) operation to assist in this search operation.” ...

An Garda Síochána have been assisted by the Civil Defence (Kerry and Cork), Irish Coast Guard Units (Glenderry and Iveragh), Irish Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 115, Kerry Mountain Rescue ...

A SWEEP by the Irish Army of vast swathes of land has provided “hope” to locals in the search for Kerry farmer Mike Gaine.

MICHAEL Gaine’s family are “going through pure torture” and locals in Kenmare are “struggling” two weeks since the missing farmer was last seen. And the lack of ...

Irish peacekeepers have faced anger and aggression ... “But we are very proactive when that happens and our cimic (civil-military co-operation) teams and through my engagement as well with ...

Rebecca Griffith, 34, of Blackheath Park, Clontarf, Dublin, who also received fines totalling €1,500, had been drinking vodka ...

Other possibilities have also not been ruled out at this stage - with officers mounting a massive search operation including Civil Defence ... Healy-Rae told the Irish Mirror he has known Mr ...

McGregor came to prominence as a cage fighter, but is now best known in Ireland because of a civil case taken against ... or to the Irish people as a whole. This is a gross misreading: McGregor ...