The Army Ranger Wing, the Defence Forces' elite unit, is set to receive a new €46 million headquarters and training centre at Curragh Camp in Co Kildare.

Ireland is scaling up its maritime security, with the Defence Forces set to join a European intelligence-sharing pact. Tánaiste Simon Harris has also directed officials in the Department of Defence to ...

Ireland is considering changing the main tenets of its defence policies as the country grapples with an identified crisis over its traditional pillars of foreign affairs and security, and it may need ...

Automatic firearms, ammunition and explosives were kept in a shipping container at Garda Headquarters without proper ...

Police enquiries established that the murder weapon, a Ruger rifle, had been used in subsequent attacks on the security forces. Prosecutors said they can link Mr Donegan, who has lived in the Republic ...

The mother of an Australian soldier found to have died from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound was told her son had ...

The inquiry also heard that the three men were playing music from Johnson’s iPod, jokingly singing along to the hit song “Dreams” by Irish ... 9mm pistol by Australian Defence Force small ...

There are 339 Irish Defence Force members currently in south Lebanon, and bunkering has been a feature of their 6-month tour of duty. For 113 of them, this is their first time serving overseas.

Later Saturday, though, U.S. President Donald Trump maintained an aggressive tone, telling NBC News that “I never take military force off the table” in regards to acquiring Greenland. “Many ...

Later Saturday, though, U.S. President Donald Trump maintained an aggressive tone, telling NBC News that “I never take military force off the table” in regards to acquiring Greenland.

Meanwhile, the Government here has announced that it has awarded a €16.5m contact to Belgian company Seyntex to supply 6,105 modern ‘body armour’ suits for Defence Forces personnel.