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.

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 Irish Defence Forces has been monitoring a Russian intelligence-gathering ship which was spotted operating off the Irish coast. The Viktor Leonov CCB-175 was spotted sailing through the Irish ...

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 ...

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 ...

The development is part of a series of capital investments at the Defence Forces HQ and the Army Ranger ... including extraction of Irish citizens in Afghanistan after the chaotic return to ...

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 ...

Armoured UNIFIL vehicles patrol in the town of Khiam in southern Lebanon The Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces, Lieutenant General Sean Clancy, was talking up the positive in Lebanon this ...

The Irish Defence Forces are fulfilling the mission of the the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) which involves peace support operations in this, one of the most volatile regions of ...