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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last Government accepted the Commission on the Future of the Defence Forces’ recommendations to significantly upgrade and improve the Irish military. The current Coalition is committed to ...

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.

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 ...

The attack happened as Irish Defence Forces chaplain Father Paul F. Murphy returned to his army barracks after an evening swim. During the victim impact statement, Murphy turned around to face ...

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 ...

A spokesperson for the Defence Forces told the Irish Mirror: “The Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team was deployed at the request of An Garda Síochána. After ensuring the ...