Ireland's Defence Forces special ops unit are set to get a new €46 million headquarters and training centreCredit: PA:Press Association The Rangers are involved in the most dangerous military ...

Alan Mahon’s annual report reveals sharp increases in direct complaints from officers and issues around internal ...

More info The Defence Forces’ elite fighting ... like the Queen when she visited Ireland in 2011. But the unit is also active abroad in more traditional military roles and has seen service ...

urged the Government to follow through on its promise to back the Armed Forces Covenant. The Lib Dem MP, who previously ...

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 threats within European waters.

Navy and Air Corps out of a combined force of 7,502 - representing a mere 7.5 per cent of the total Irish military. The figures were released by the Defence Minister Simon Harris in reply to a ...

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 Minister said Ireland ... the Defence Forces, which reported three years ago. This will see an expanded Army, the establishment of a fleet of modern armoured vehicles for the Army, a military ...

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 Irish Defence Forces has been monitoring a Russian intelligence ... Ireland’s defensive readiness from a military point of view,” he added. He stressed that Ireland’s waters are regarded ...

The growing military cooperation between neutral Ireland and our nearest neighbour ... supply 6,105 modern ‘body armour’ suits for Defence Forces personnel. The first batch will be delivered ...

Ireland will join a new European Military alliance today, days after Russian intelligence-gathering ship the Viktor Leonov spent time in Irish waters.