The Department of Defence is to rent military training facilities in towns where it is controversially closing army barracks, in a move described as “baffling”.

I WRITE to you to highlight a great injustice imposed on a group of loyal and diligent servants of this state.

THERE are too many staff employed in overseas missions and Ireland has too many embassies abroad, An Bord Snip Nua has said.

A LIMERICK woman has swapped the drill of the army barracks square for the beat of a London Bobby.

THE piano in Con O’Neill’s childhood home resonated with history even when its keys were quiet.

Defence Minister Willie O' Dea has given part-time soldiers of the FCA a role in peacekeeping abroad with the United Nations.

THE head of the Defence Forces gave soldier representatives a dressing down yesterday for raising serious allegations for the “first time” in the media.