Pressing threats to the State include espionage, misinformation, cyberattacks and suspicious maritime activity ...

Lieutenant General Rossa Mulcahy, who took over as the most senior officer in the Defence Forces in June, confirms he is no relation to General Richard Mulcahy, the man who helped establish the ...

The UN says the almost 50-year mission will come to an end in 2027, as 300 Irish peacekeepers still stationed in south ...

Mr Harris is proposing that the Defence Forces send personnel to upskill the Lebanese Armed Forces. And he also wants the EU to equip the country's military ...

IRISH soldiers will no longer be sent to Lebanon after 2027 following a UN vote to end the peacekeeping mission that has seen Irish troops in the Middle East for almost 50 years. Almost 400 Irish ...

VALUED WORK Watershed moment for Defence Forces over ‘gamechanger’ deal with extra payments & free flights in push for 2k new troops ...

The budget of more than €1.3 billion is a record figure for the Irish Defence Forces but almost a quarter is to meet to meet the pensions costs of Defence Forces Veterans and their dependents. Ireland ...

The Irish Defence Forces have personnel serving in various UN operations across Lebanon, Syria and Israel.

Ireland's relationship with Lebanon goes back as far as 1958, when a team of 50 officers was deployed. The mission was called ...

IRISH MILITARY REPRESENTATIVE groups will next week travel to Brussels to meet MEPs and other officials to ask them to campaign for better conditions for Irish Defence Forces members.

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 backlash from the recent sexual and ...

Easter has always been a time for the Irish Defence Forces to shine, a time when, to quote the Irish patriotic ballad, “serried files that foes may dread” would step together, “firm each ...