The Department of Defence has confirmed that a Pentagon-based US company has been appointed to oversee a redesign of the Defence Forces.

Mary Robinson was appointed President of Ireland in 1990, the first woman to become head of the state and also supreme ...

It is the first time in the history of the State that an army private has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal ...

There are around 600 women in the Irish Defence Forces out of 7,500 members - less than 10pc. The figures were released as Mr Harris was responding to a series of parliamentary questions on the ...

More info More than 900 people recruited to the Defence Forces left within five years of joining the military since 2020. New figures show how 837 men and 65 women resigned from their posts ...

TANAISTE Simon Harris has honoured a young Irish soldier after he was tragically killed in battle in Lebanon. The Minister ...

An Irish soldier has been awarded the distinguished service medal posthumously. Private Billy Kedian from Ballyhaunis, Co ...

“Along with recruitment, we have to do much better on retention because I believe that, if we give the men and women of the Irish Defence Forces the tools and the colleagues, we can absolutely ...

Draft legislation to amend Ireland’s “triple lock” on the deployment of Defence Forces peacekeepers overseas will be brought ...

Draft legislation to amend the State’s “triple lock” on the deployment of Defence Forces peacekeepers overseas will be ...

It’s arguably the most talked about social and family orientated spectacle on the local calendar and this year’s St Patrick’s ...

The tribunal investigating the Defence Forces’ handling of decades of abuse ... made by a group of female veterans known as the Women of Honour. There were also allegations about complaints ...