Ireland’s air force, An tAerchór – the Irish Air Corps – doesn’t have a single fighter jet in its fleet. Ireland is not alone ...

THE government will spend up to €100 million a year on fighter jets as part of a major upgrade of our defence capability.

Ireland’s planned purchase of combat jets and the development of a long-overdue national radar system mark a historic turning ...

So perhaps there is something poetically apropos about this coming March 17, in which St. Patrick’s Day takes place in the ...

Officials in the Department of Defence have been asked to cost a massive expansion of the Irish military, including the ...

For the past 50 years, the Republic of Ireland has relied on the United Kingdom to provide air cover in the face of an ...

Simon Harris says he is convinced of need to acquire combat jet aircraft to ‘deter and detect’ airborne threats as part of ...

Ireland’s Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minster) and Defence Minister Simon Harris has instructed “groundwork” to begin on the ...