The Government ran out of money to pay members of the Reserve Defence Forces (RDF) last year due to greater-than-expected recruitment. While the strength of the Permanent Defence Forces continues to ...

The Defence Forces was unable to locate a bag of high-calibre rounds, seized as part of an investigation into the alleged theft of military property by an Army officer, for several months, according ...

This senior Defence Forces officer is making final preparations to lead a dangerous peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon - but nobody knows how many soldiers will be on the plane with him.

The Irish Defence Forces have donated 34 vehicles and three de-mining robots to the Ukrainian army. The donations were part of the European Peace Facility (EPF), a European Union financing mechanism ...

The Tánaiste and Minister for Defence, Simon Harris, has said that he is open to Irish peacekeeping troops serving in Ukraine, but only when there is peace in the region. Speaking in the Dáil this ...

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Jim Gavin’s team deleted a video from his social media account where he spoke about a phone call with a serving Defence Forces officer. It’s his third social media campaign post that has been deleted ...

Aug 23 (Reuters) - A team of Irish diplomats as well as members of the Irish Defence Forces will be sent to Afghanistan to help evacuate its citizens, Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said ...