Defence Forces

Micheál Martin said current rule gives Russia an effective veto over Irish peacekeeping efforts

Defence Forces explosive experts are providing demining and bomb disposal training in Cyprus as part of EU support

In two years, Air Corps PC-9s will reach end of 20-year service life, presenting military planners with two options: maintain status quo or buy modern combat aircraft

Currently, any major foreign deployment for peacekeeping requires approval of Government, Dáil and backing of a UN resolution

Low-key meeting likely to be dominated by increasing concerns about Russian maritime activity

Plans follow 2022 report that found Defence Forces not equipped to perform their role

Ireland has little if any means of protecting undersea cables which carry internet traffic between US and Europe and pass through Irish waters off south and west coasts

Irish stance increasingly looks like freeloading in Brussels as EU becomes more preoccupied with defence

Defence Forces representatives have criticised the ‘managed decline’ of military accommodation

Paulyn Marrinan Quinn urges victims ‘don’t suffer in silence’ and come forward in the wake of the review group report

Former Defence Forces member Cathal Berry calls on State to be more honest about ‘completely reasonable’ relationships

“No more do the young people of Ireland believe the Defence Forces can sustain the basic hierarchy of human needs” PDForra meeting told

Chief of Staff tells PDForra conference that training is ongoing in demining and bomb disposal

John McManus: Like some of the other peculiarities of Anglo-Irish relations, the logic – for both sides – of the air defence treaty-not-a-treaty trumps the spiteful instincts of even the pettiest of political minds

Tánaiste plays down controversy surrounding Russian military ships off the Irish coast: ‘I didn’t see it as a threat’

The agreement remains in place, despite concerns raised by ministers and military officers over the years

Ireland’s air defence agreement with the UK dates to the early days of the Cold War and remains in place today, despite legal concerns

One of the ships, the Admiral Grigorovich, has been involved in cruise missile attacks on Ukraine

Threats to subsea cables will be a key focus of Ireland’s work with Helsinki based hybrid threats centre

Women of Honour group criticises terms as overly narrow and raises concerns about transparency

Department of Defence says ‘provision of residential accommodation not provided to members of Defence Forces’

In wake of Sudan crisis, strong political consensus exists for upper threshold to be increased

We spend less than any EU country on defence, yet wallow in the notion that our neutrality confers some sort of moral superiority

An independent review group said ‘incidents of bullying, harassment, discrimination and sexual harassment persist’ in the Defence Forces

Chief of Staff on a 'watershed moment' and the transformation needed to build a Defence Forces of which Ireland can continue to be proud

The Defence Forces said the operation will “hopefully” be the last one the 22-year-old requires

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has raised ‘serious concerns’ about the mission due to involvement of Libyan coastguard

Irish diplomats and soldiers will travel to country in small teams on Tuesday to process fleeing Irish citizens’ identification documents

Irish citizen Zenira Elbasheer says her family have no internet access and are difficult to contact

Ireland again forced to rely on friendly countries to airlift citizens out of conflict zone

Effort to extricate diplomats and citizens from Sudan intensifies amid battles in capital Khartoum

Tánaiste: ‘morally wrong’ that an authoritarian power has a ‘de facto veto’ on how Ireland reacts to international situations

Tanaiste and Minister for Defence launched new book on the centenary of Óglaigh na h-Éireann

Military judge says man paying high price for ‘one-off lapse’ while drunk at McKee Barracks

The military does not make its own rules: responsibility for oversight lies with the Government

President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar attend ceremony outside the GPO

Canada’s scandal was every bit as bad as what was exposed by Ireland’s Women of Honour, and led to the ousting of more than a dozen top officers

Representative Association of Commissioned Officers said it ‘cannot simply allow all members to be tarred with the same brush’ by report's ‘generalised language’

Investigations into alleged sexual assaults involving Defence Forces members overseas raise jurisdictional issues

Fine Gael opposes triple lock, which requires approval for any deployment of Irish troops from Government, Dáil and UN