Conor McGregor will run for the Irish presidency in elections later this year, the controversial former fighter said on Thursday, as he announced his candidacy for the largely ceremonial role on ...

For an industry that measures contracts in decades, and a ministry with a reputation for bureaucracy, overspending and delays, the prospect of a rapid increase in defence spending presents a ...

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Increased defence spending should be funded from extra borrowing, a Labour former Cabinet minister has said, as he urged the Chancellor to “break free from Treasury orthodoxy”. Peter Hain ...

Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umierov has stated that the Ukrainian defence forces have redeployed to more advantageous defence positions in Russia's Kursk Oblast. He denied reports that claimed ...

A legal challenge over the awarding of the €30 million to €40 million contract to replace uniforms for the Irish Defence Forces has been withdrawn after it was decided to terminate the ...

The technique is being used heavily by both sides in the war in Ukraine – but a senior Irish artillery officer told us in Thursday’s exercise that the Defence Forces have been using the ...

The Ukrainian defence forces targeted several strategic Russian facilities involved in supporting the ongoing military aggression against Ukraine on the night of 10-11 March. Source: General Staff ...

They offloaded out of contact, with nothing scything through the defence, but more so small pop passes to keep the ball alive and move the Irish defence. On the other side, while Ireland didn’t ...

I think it is a logical continuation of that heritage that the Irish government now seek to amend the UN-related conditions that allow its defence forces to participate in peacekeeping and ...

Kyiv is reinforcing its troops involved in fighting in Russia's Kursk region, where Moscow's forces have been regaining ground, Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky said Monday.

the German armed forces had made significant progress in the past few years after decades of under-investment. She heaped praise on Boris Pistorius — the popular German defence minister who like ...