AN IRISH ARMY officer deployed in Hungary with the EU Battlegroup has said he and his fellow troops are part of the “European ...

An Irish army chaplain has hugged and forgiven a teenage boy who repeatedly stabbed him with a hunting knife in an attempted murder last year.

You can check out at any time. More info A group of Irish soldiers had to shelter in bunkers for 72 hours – as rockets and shells exploded just a few hundred yards from their outpost.

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You can check out at any time. More info More than 100 Irish soldiers are in Hungary – for Europe’s biggest military exercise. These images show just some of the 139 members of the Defence ...

The new equipment, which includes night vision technology, body armour and weapons, was issued to the 172 Irish soldiers assigned to the new rapid reaction force, which is intended to be deployed ...

A new headquarters for elite Irish soldiers is to be built in Co Kildare for €46 million. Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Simon Harris will bring a memo on the project to Cabinet on Tuesday.

The conviction of a former Irish soldier for membership of the so-called Islamic State (IS), because she travelled to Syria in 2015, “falls short of Irish law”, a Dublin court has heard.

Gerry Adams, president of the staunchly pro-Irish Sinn Fein party, called on the Irish Republican Army to being disarming in an effort to save the teetering Northern Ireland Assembly. The ...