You can check out at any time. More info Irish women are giving the Defence Forces the cold shoulder, new figures have revealed. Out of 708 new recruits hired last year, just 40 were female as the ...

It has been great.” One of the Irish soldiers was a Reserve Defence Forces member who normally works as a paramedic and firefighter in Dublin Airport. Meeting the Ukrainians Buckley said the ...

Depending on its performance, the equipment, or a version of it, may be adopted by the rest of the Defence Forces as part of the Government’s plans to modernise the Irish military. The new ...

The Irish Defence Forces has paid tribute to Corporal Martin “Lebbie” O’Brien, who has died aged 41. He served 23 years in the Defence Forces and completed seven overseas trips, travelling ...

Mr Harris, who is also Defence Minister, is set to confirm today that the Irish Defence Forces will join an alliance with military and civil agencies from 10 other nations to share intelligence on ...

More info The Defence Forces’ elite fighting unit is to get ... And in 2021 it sent operators to Afghanistan to rescue more than 200 Irish citizens from the chaos of Kabul Airport.

The Irish Army is a third short of ... Figures revealed by the Defence Forces also reveal the strength of the frontline reserve has reduced sharply from 277 in 2023 to just 172 last year ...

A Defence Forces cadet competition for new recruits opened last Friday. Mr Power said that the retention issue has to be addressed and suggested reviving the Reserve Defence Forces. "The third ...

A Russian intelligence-gathering ship is being monitored by the Defence Forces off the Irish coast. It is understood that LÉ Samuel Beckett was dispatched to monitor the vessel in recent days as ...