Investment in upgrading our Defence Forces can be of economic benefit to local communities where barracks are located and we ...

IRELAND’S military stands at just 7,500 soldiers – 2,000 troops below the required strength to protect the country. Decades of under investment, poor pay and conditions have resulted in our ...

ALMOST one in 10 Defence Forces ... new figures reveal. But the overall number in the Army, Navy and Air Corp has stabilised slightly at 7,557 last year compared to 7,550 in 2023. However, the ...

Financial reporting season for the calendar year of 2024 has continued to show substantial growth for defence companies as countries across the world, particularly those in Europe, open the chequebook ...

The European Union (EU) needs to continue to increase spending on defence, focus on air and missile defence, improve access ...

Briefing material for the new Minister for Defence, Tánaiste Simon Harris, set out how meeting the Commission on Defence Forces' recommended ... Last month, The Irish Times reported that a ...

For decades the town of Mezhova welcomed trains criss-crossing Ukraine and continuing east to Russia through the wheat and ...

If you ask them to change to new energy systems ... Picture: AP/Efrem Lukatsky The Defence Forces chief of staff, Lieutenant General Seán Clancy, told the Irish Examiner: “Climate change ...

The triple lock is the mechanism under which more than 12 members of the Irish Defence Forces can be deployed ... The UN has not agreed a new peace keeping mission since 2014.

In a televised address on August 13th, after criticising the Stormont government’s failure to protect innocent civilians, Lynch announced that the Irish Defence Forces would establish field ...

More info With Gardaí on the lookout for some dedicated new members to join up to the ... Jane Blake worked with the Defence Forces for the last seven years, serving for a period in Lebanon.