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 ...

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.

The 100th cadet class in the history of the Irish Defence Forces is entering a period of global uncertainty that few of any of its predecessors have faced. The realisation that Europe can no ...

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 ...

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 ...

IRELAND’S Defence Forces special ops unit are set to get a new €46 million headquarters and training centre. The Army Ranger Wing is a secretive elite unit in Ireland’s Defence Forces that ...

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 ...