A major security operation was carried out off the Irish coast Irish special forces ... Irish Defence Forces said were "challenging conditions". They made the ship safe so military and police ...

Report shows archive footage of Irish troops prepare to leave for Congo in July 1960. Funeral of soldiers who died in the Niemba ambush in the Congo in November 1960. UN troops in Lebanon in 1978.

Irish officers serving with United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) assaulted by Israeli backed militia at At Tiri village, South Lebanon. The incident happened on the day Irish Defence ...

Former army commandant Frank Reidy, now a defence analyst, told the BBC that it was unprecedented for former officers to speak out in this way. Irish Defence Forces/Óglaigh na hÉireann Ireland ...

THE popular Army chaplain stabbed outside a barracks has thanked people for their "prayers, love, and concern" ahead of undergoing surgery and added: "All will be well." ©News Group Newspapers ...

All asylum seekers and Defence Forces personnel are safe after a fire at an emergency accommodation centre in Co Wicklow. A ...