IRELAND is fast-tracking the purchase of new anti-drone technology ahead of the European Presidency in Dublin next year. It comes as Defence Minister Helen McEntee unveiled plans to splash ...

The Defence Forces has taken possession of a new “strategic reach” aircraft which will be capable of flying to the west coast ...

Sheep amble around steel fences skirting Ireland's largest military base on a grassy plain west of Dublin, a bucolic scene ...

The State will acquire a proposed €500 million military radar system through a government-to-government deal with France, it ...

With few ships and limited intelligence-sharing, some say the country cannot hope to protect itself or its infrastructure ...

Ireland is preparing to enter detailed negotiations with France on the delivery of its first military radar system, to ...

THE Government’s new €53million jet that will be used to fly ministers around the globe has landed in Dublin. The last ...

Two convoys of vehicles from the Irish Defence Forces' stock have arrived in Poland for donation to Ukraine, Ireland's Tánaiste and Minister for Defence, Simon Harris TD, confirmed today, Thursday, ...

An Irish Air Corps surveillance plane was dispatched earlier this morning to an area off the west coast as two Russian ...

The Naval Service now has the strength of 784 personnel; that is up from 719 at the end of last year, according to official ...

Splendid isolation was the view over many decades. Europe might be engulfed in war but Ireland, off the continent's edge, was ...