An investigation is underway following overnight damage to a runway at Baldonnel Aerodrome.

AN investigation has been launched into allegations that some naval service personnel have been moonlighting as security guards on cargo ships and oil tankers sailing off the pirate-ridden coast of Somalia.

The Defence Forces have launched an investigation after a gun and a quantity of ammunition were found to be missing from the LE Niamh.

A 50-year-old soldier has died following a shooting incident at Government Buildings in Dublin.

New eyewitness accounts of the shootings of 11 people by British soldiers in the North were submitted to the region‘s Attorney General today in a bid to get fresh inquests opened.

Military police are investigating claims that British soldiers may have been involved in heroin trafficking in Afghanistan.

A soldier has been seriously injured during an overnight training exercise in Co Cork.

Actor Christian Bale reportedly flew into a rage on the set of forthcoming film 'Terminator 4' last Friday - just two days before he is alleged to have assaulted his mother and sister.

Soldiers’ representatives tonight called for military trucks to be taken off the roads for safety reasons after 28 soldiers were injured in a motorway pile-up.

Twenty-two soldiers have been taken to five hospitals in Dublin following the multi-vehicle accident on the M50 this morning, according to the Defence Forces.

MILITARY police are awaiting the all-clear from engineers before examining a historic building that was gutted by fire at the naval service headquarters in Co Cork.

Nine British soldiers are facing charges in Cyprus after an incident in the coastal town of Ayia Napa on Friday night, the UK's Ministry of Defence said today.

IRISH soldiers seen taunting a group of locals in Liberia on a well-known website have been positively identified and will be interviewed by Military Police, the Defence Forces confirmed yesterday.

Military police today said a Canadian soldier who shot and killed an Afghan civilian at a checkpoint in Kandahar acted lawfully and will not face charges.

Military police are quizzing 40 Army recruits after allegations of harassment at Dublin’s McKee Barracks, it emerged today.

MILITARY police are investigating allegations that British troops mutilated the bodies of Iraqi fighters killed during a skirmish near the town of Majar al Kabir last month.

Rebels detonated a roadside bomb as a US convoy drove by in central Baghdad today, killing one Iraqi and wounding another, police said.

Dutch military police carrying out a Spanish arrest warrant detained a man who was trying to enter the Netherlands with a fake passport, officials said.

A UNITED NATIONS report alleging Irish peacekeepers in Africa used prostitutes, including a 15-year-old girl, was compiled without interviewing any of the seven accused, it emerged yesterday.

MILITARY police were questioning a British soldier in custody yesterday after photographs emerged allegedly showing troops "torturing" Iraqi prisoners of war.

A former soldier who slit his brother's throat and tried to strangle him in an unprovoked, drunken assault has been given a two-year suspended sentence by Judge Michael White.

Military police are investigating claims that two British servicemen serving in Bosnia raped a male Dutch soldier.