Adam, Ahern, Black, Bolger, Brennan, Breslin — the names read like poetry under the Menin Gate. Molloy, Moran, Morgen, Mulvihill, Murphy, Murray — all buried in unknown graves in Flanders soil.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and British prime minister David Cameron are to visit First World War graves and memorials on the site of the Western Front.

Two British Army soldiers have been photographed standing in front of the Union Flag making Nazi-style salutes.

The price of betrayal for one of Michael Collins’s opponents was his life but the cost of owning an insight into this fascinating piece of history came at a more modest €3,800.

A former soldier played a dangerous game by turning on Michael Collins during the War of Independence, writes Ryle Dwyer

A safety supervisor on a gun range where a Cork-born soldier died during a training exercise has refused to tell an inquest about events on the fateful day because of possible further legal proceedings.

Irish and British troops are joining forces for the first time to train military units in war-torn Mali.

An Irish-born soldier who survived Afghanistan was accidentally shot dead during training when he was hit by machine gun fire from 1km away, an inquest in Cardiff has heard.

The unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast joined his Dublin counterpart today in paying tribute together to the shared sacrifice of Ireland's war dead.

A Royal Irish Regiment ranger, described at his funeral Mass as a gentle giant, was laid to rest with military honours yesterday after he was killed by a stray bullet during a training exercise in Wales.

The British Army has sent its condolences to the family of an Irish man who died on a training exercise in Wales.

STUNNED Londoners counted the cost of the pillaging and tried to clear up the mess yesterday as fears grew of what lay ahead for them last night.

A British soldier killed in a landmine blast in Afghanistan has been laid to rest beside his baby daughter in the North.

A SERIES of bomb blasts and militant attacks killed 11 people across Afghanistan, including a British soldier, four other Nato service members and three Afghan police.

SINN FEIN president Gerry Adams clashed with Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson after he wore a wristband supporting the army at a meeting with families bereaved by British troops, it emerged yesterday.

SINN FEIN president Gerry Adams clashed with Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson after he wore a wristband supporting the army at a meeting with families bereaved by British troops, it emerged yesterday.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams clashed with Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson after he wore a wristband supporting the Army at a meeting with families bereaved by British troops, it emerged today.

A former police officer from the North working for a security services company has been shot dead in Afghanistan.

A FÁS-funded Limerick jobs centre has been ordered to stop promoting careers in the British army, a criminal offence under the Defence Act of 1954.

Shots were fired over the coffin of an IRA killer today in a blatant display of paramilitarism by dissident republicans.

WE even have it in song: “On far foreign shores, from Dunkirk to Belgrade, lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.”

Former soldiers from Ireland and the North stood shoulder to shoulder today to honour servicemen killed in the First and Second World Wars.

More than 300 former soldiers have sought specialist treatment to help them deal with the legacy of the North's Troubles in the last year, it was revealed today.

Families of people killed by British soldiers during the North's Troubles urged the British army today to call off a contentious parade for troops returning from Afghanistan.

An Irish soldier injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan is recovering well, his father said today.

The Queen of England is expected to meet President Mary McAleese in the North today.

The UK's queen arrived in the North today for a three-day visit.

Up to 400 civilian posts within the PSNI will disappear over the next three years, a trade union claimed tonight.

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness is to have face-to-face talks with victims of IRA violence, it was confirmed today.

The political progress that has been achieved in the North would not have been occurred without the British Army, a senior unionist claimed today.

Police in the North are to become the first force to receive new powers to seize documents and files as part of a crackdown on serious crime.

THE differences between soldiers from unionists and nationalists backgrounds fighting in World War I were set aside for a common good, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told a commemorative event yesterday.

Queen Elizabeth II is in the North today for a parade to mark the disbandment of the Royal Irish Regiment's three locally recruited battalions.

A soldier who was killed in a clash with insurgents while serving with British forces in Afghanistan was named today as Ranger Anare Draiva of 1 Royal Irish Regiment.

As of today, there are no soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment patrolling streets in the North.

A Northern soldier killed in Afghanistan was totally committed to his job, mourners today heard.

TOMORROW (June 29), a British Navy warship, HMS Ocean, is due to arrive in Dublin on what is termed a ‘courtesy visit’.

Around 1,500 civilian jobs are to be axed as part of a sweeping military normalisation programme in Northern Ireland, it was announced today.

A retired British army leader tonight hit out at counterfeit Irish republicanism for endangering the future of peace on the island.

A £250 million-plus (€364m) redundancy package for more than 3,000 soldiers in the North should have been allocated to improving public services, a Sinn Féin MP claimed yesterday.

A £250m (€364.3m)-plus British government redundancy package for more than 3,000 soldiers in Northern Ireland should have been allocated to improving public services, a Sinn Féin MP claimed today.

The British government will today reveal details of a redundancy package for more than 3,000 soldiers in the North.

LOYALIST killer Torrens Knight was a double agent shielded by the Special Branch before he murdered eight people in the Greysteel massacre, SDLP Assembly member John Dallat claimed yesterday.

TWO new hardline republican groups are operating within the North, the latest report from a ceasefire watchdog claimed yesterday.