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 ...

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 ...

A Defence Forces chaplain who was repeatedly stabbed by a teenage boy motivated by “a radicalised Islamic mindset” has told him he forgives him, with the priest and his attacker later ...

The Irish Defence Forces has been monitoring a Russian intelligence-gathering ship which was spotted operating off the Irish coast. The Viktor Leonov CCB-175 was spotted sailing through the Irish ...

One of the Defence Forces’ newest aircraft spent almost 40pc of the last year undergoing maintenance in Spain. The Irish Air Corps received two Airbus C295 maritime surveillance aircraft in 2023 ...

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 Forces who are taking part in the ...

The boy told gardai when arrested: "I did it to protest the Irish Defence Forces and their work in Mali and all the stuff for Islam", the Central Criminal Court heard. The priest said while he can ...

CAPE TOWN - Parliament’s defence committees have warned that the country’s defence force risks being in a permanent “state of crisis” unless it’s turned around urgently. National ...

Plans for a peacekeeping force in Ukraine are “real and substantial”, the Defence Secretary has said, at the start of a further meeting of the “coalition of the willing”. John Healey ...

“He has offended our State, he has offended the Irish Defence Forces and he has offended every soldier who has walked through the gate of our barracks, because it could have been any one of them ...