Wed, 27 May, 2020
Thu, 26 Mar, 2020
Drugs are flowing into the country as our borders can’t be properly patrolled. It is one of the myriad ways we are suffering due to the under-resourced Defence Forces, writes Defence Correspondent Sean O’Riordan
Mon, 24 Feb, 2020
A spokesperson for the Irish Coastguard has warned that gale force winds could impede the search for a missing fisherman off the south east coast this morning.
Mon, 06 Jan, 2020
Fianna Faíl says it's in favour of establishing an independent pay commission for the Defence Forces and wants to restore an Army brigade which was disbanded in 2012.
Wed, 04 Dec, 2019
The association representing over 1,000 Defence Forces officers claims members are leaving because they are being sought out by other areas of the public sector.
Tue, 24 Sep, 2019
The number of recruits paying to get out of the Defence Forces before their training has even finished confirms claims that the retention crisis can't be overcome just by major recruitment drives alone.
Tue, 10 Sep, 2019
As Electric Picnic 2019 drew to a close, festival organisers hailed the event as one of their most successful years to date and said there was room for Ireland’s largest music festival to grow further.
Sun, 01 Sep, 2019
That is over 700 less than the recommended level and a new record low, according to Fianna Fáil.
Sun, 21 Jul, 2019
A former senior chief petty officer in the Naval Service has said he never thought he would see the day when two ships had to be tied-up indefinitely because of manpower shortages.
Sat, 29 Jun, 2019
Many of those men and women served overseas in conflict zones, as well as at home during the Troubles.
Thu, 27 Jun, 2019
The Civil Defence is expected to hear today whether it will be allowed continue to provide emergency medical services at hundreds of community festivals.
Thu, 20 Jun, 2019
The organisation which represents enlisted personnel in the Defence Forces says it's "very sceptical" about the Department of Defence's claim that it will address the accommodation crisis at Naval Service headquarters "as a matter of urgency".
Tue, 11 Jun, 2019
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he and his government must heed the "stinging criticisms" made by Commandant Barry about the state of the Defence Forces.
Tue, 28 May, 2019
A former Defence Forces general has criticised the Government’s approach to security along the border in the light of Brexit, warning the operational knowledge of the border has been lost by organs of the State tasked with security.
Fri, 14 Dec, 2018
The deepening crisis in the Defence Forces will be laid bare at a conference
Tue, 02 Oct, 2018
A ceremony takes place at Dublin Castle today to mark 60 years of Irish peacekeeping.
Sun, 24 Jun, 2018
Defence Forces bosses want the Government to establish an independent pay review board, similar to ones in Britain and Australia, to curtail the exodus of highly trained personnel who are leaving for better wages and conditions elsewhere.
Tue, 08 May, 2018
A request under the Freedom of Information Act has been lodged with the Department of Defence in an attempt to establish why a Naval Service ship was delayed by more than three weeks from leaving her base to save migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
Fri, 09 Jun, 2017
The complainant says Tomkins' "overpowered" her and she was also too drunk to consent to sex.
Thu, 18 May, 2017
Defence lawyers at a dissident republican's murder trial are challenging the evidence of an accused man who turned prosecution witness.
Mon, 30 Jan, 2017
Revolutionary, diplomat, humanitarian, poet, traitor, nationalist, homosexual, rebel — just some of the terms used to describe the complex figure that was Roger Casement.
Thu, 04 Aug, 2016
Around 130 people have been arrested in Baton Rouge as demonstrations continue over shootings by police.
Mon, 11 Jul, 2016
Crosshaven will be thronged with thousands of people over the next few days as sailing events for Volvo Cork Week kick off surrounded by onshore entertainment and with a special flypast by the air corps.
Fri, 08 Jul, 2016
Wed, 13 Jan, 2016
The Taoiseach’s recent claims about deploying the Army to man ATMs at the height of the banking crisis appear to be true. So what would such a situation entail, asks Tom Clonan
Thu, 12 Nov, 2015
Thu, 15 Oct, 2015
The number of Freedom of Information requests lodged with the Department of Finance to date this year outstrips the entire number of requests made in 2014.
Sat, 20 Jun, 2015
An investigation of alleged child sex abuse by French soldiers in the Central African Republic has begun, Paris prosecutors said.
Fri, 08 May, 2015
A calendar quirk will bring an extra payday for thousands of workers and social welfare recipients in 2015 and add €200m to the cost of running the country.
Wed, 29 Oct, 2014
Some 180 recruits are about to be taken into the Army just as the overall funding for Department of Defence will be cut by €1m, next year.
Wed, 15 Oct, 2014
Sat, 20 Sep, 2014
A member of the Defence Forces appeared in court last night on explosives charges.
Thu, 20 Feb, 2014
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has vowed not to rest until the Government has restored Ireland’s economic sovereignty.
Sun, 19 Aug, 2012
The head of a private ambulance firm involved in all of the State’s organ transport missions has called on HIQA to probe what he said has become a “chaotic” organ transport co-ordination system.
Thu, 31 May, 2012
Egypt has brokered a ceasefire between Palestinian militant factions and Israel after four days of violence, an Egyptian security official said today.
Tue, 13 Mar, 2012
The body of the skipper of a trawler which sank three weeks ago has been recovered during a shoreline search by his brother.
Wed, 08 Feb, 2012
RELATIVES of three UN peacekeepers murdered in 1989 have hailed an independent inquiry into the incident as enough to expose a 22-year army cover-up.
Tue, 20 Sep, 2011
CAPTAIN Aileen Leonard is in charge of the Defence Forces’ mortar troops in the Lebanon. Standing in the midday 35C heat at the Irish headquarters in Camp Shamrock, the Cork woman explained that she was in charge of 30 Irish soldiers in her unit.
Thu, 21 Jul, 2011
Casey Anthony, the Florida mother cleared of killing her two-year-old daughter, has been jailed for four years for lying to investigators.
Thu, 07 Jul, 2011
Defence lawyers for former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor say they will call a final witness at his war crimes trial.
Fri, 22 Oct, 2010
Defence lawyers for a man on trial for murder, assault and hijack, have argued that the prosecution's main witness has lied in his statements to gardai and in his evidence to the court.
Thu, 15 Jul, 2010
The former Defence Forces Chief of Staff Dermot Earley has died, it was announced today.
Wed, 23 Jun, 2010
Defence giant BAE Systems today said profits had been torpedoed by the loss of a key US contract and hefty fines to settle bribery allegations.
Thu, 18 Feb, 2010
Defence giant BAE Systems is to pay £286m (€327m) in fines and plead guilty to two criminal charges to settle corruption claims in the UK and US.
Sat, 06 Feb, 2010
THE head of the Irish Air Corps last night paid tribute to two pilots killed on a training mission.
Wed, 14 Oct, 2009
Defence giant BAE Systems is to face prosecution over bribery allegations, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the UK said today following a long investigation.
Thu, 01 Oct, 2009
More than 1,000 people turned out in Cork last night to attend the latest regional meeting organised by the new group set up to oppose cutbacks in the public sector.
THE Army will today erect a bailey bridge across the Grand Canal in Athy, Co Kildare, to facilitate pedestrian access to the site of the three-day National Ploughing Championships, which begin tomorrow.
Mon, 21 Sep, 2009
The former Defence Forces Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Tadhg O'Neill, died at a hospital in Dublin today.
Thu, 17 Sep, 2009
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