Depending on its performance, the equipment, or a version of it, may be adopted by the rest of the Defence Forces as part of the Government’s plans to modernise the Irish military. The new ...

The Irish Defence Forces has paid tribute to Corporal Martin “Lebbie” O’Brien, who has died aged 41. He served 23 years in the Defence Forces and completed seven overseas trips, travelling ...

You can check out at any time. More info Irish women are giving the Defence Forces the cold shoulder, new figures have revealed. Out of 708 new recruits hired last year, just 40 were female as the ...

Mr Harris, who is also Defence Minister, is set to confirm today that the Irish Defence Forces will join an alliance with military and civil agencies from 10 other nations to share intelligence on ...

and Minister for Defence Simon Harris has given the Irish Defence Forces approval to formally join the Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE). The government said CISE enabled more ...

A Russian intelligence-gathering vessel has now left Ireland's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) after being monitored by the Defence Forces for two days. Tánaiste and defence minister Simon Harris ...

IRELAND’S Defence Forces special ops unit are set to get a new €46 million headquarters and training centre. The Army Ranger Wing is a secretive elite unit in Ireland’s Defence Forces that ...

Proposals for a new state-of-the-art headquarters and training centre for Ireland’s Special Operations Force is due to be brought before the Cabinet on Tuesday. Minister for defence Simon Harris ...

More info The Defence Forces’ elite fighting unit is to get ... And in 2021 it sent operators to Afghanistan to rescue more than 200 Irish citizens from the chaos of Kabul Airport.

A Russian intelligence-gathering ship is being monitored by the Defence Forces off the Irish coast. It is understood that LÉ Samuel Beckett was dispatched to monitor the vessel in recent days as ...

Former lieutenant colonel and deputy director of military intelligence at the Irish Defence Forces, Michael Murphy told RTÉ News he would have concerns over how this could affect Ireland’s ...