Taoiseach Jack Lynch announces in an August 1969 broadcast that the Irish Army will set up field hospitals along the border In addition, the Defence Forces lacked heavy armour, air cover and naval ...

Father of two was ideal for crime group as he had no convictions Richard Kearney was jailed for three years An Irish Defence Forces corporal convicted for his role in a €6.6m money-laundering ...

You can check out at any time. More info A former corporal in the Irish Defence Forces was involved in a money laundering operation that handled over €6.6 million worth of drug dealers’ cash ...

An Irish Defence Forces corporal has been jailed over his involvement in a money-laundering operation that handled some €6.6 million of drug dealers’ cash. Richard Kearney (36), of Shancastle ...

A MEMBER OF the Irish Defence Forces will be sentenced next January for the rape of a fellow soldier at a Dublin hotel three years ago. Kielan Mooney (30) of Bloomfield Park, Derry, was convicted ...

A member of the Irish Defence Forces who ‘spurned the consensual offer that was made to him in a selfish, arrogant and forceful way’ has been jailed for eight and half years for the rape of a fellow ...

The United Nations has failed to fulfil a publicly made promise to provide the family of a young soldier, who was brutally ...

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 ...

Picture: AP/Efrem Lukatsky The Defence Forces chief of staff, Lieutenant General Seán Clancy, told the Irish Examiner: “Climate change is affecting us all and we all have to do our best ...

A senior medical officer became Ireland’s first graduate of military medicine in what has been described as a “landmark” development for the Defence Forces. Comdt (Dr) Fiachra Lambe ...

You can check out at any time. More info The Government is set to spend almost half-a-billion euro to give the Defence Forces vital new armoured vehicles. The Irish Mirror has learned that it is ...