Ireland has been described as Europe's weakest link when it comes to defence and intelligence by a leading security expert.

Eoghan Clonan, 13, has to lie on the ground of the Natural History Museum so his father Tom can carry his wheelchair up to the first floor, because there is no lift in this national building.

The planned deployment of around 140 crack troops on a major EU exercise has been called off as the Government failed to sign a special agreement to indemnify soldiers on duty abroad.

Twenty sit-ups in a minute. Twenty press-ups in a minute. Run a mile in 11 minutes — not too high a fitness bar, but beyond many hoping to join the army.

The US military cannot project military power in the global war on terror without the use of Shannon airport as it is currently configured, says a security expert.

One of the two Russian ‘Bear’ bombers which flew into Irish-controlled airspace last week was reportedly carrying a nuclear weapon.

Ireland is "Europe’s weakest link" in air defence cover because our Air Corps is so poorly equipped it cannot defend our airspace against hijackers taking over commercial aircraft or intrusions by foreign military aircraft.

Parents “disgusted” at the deepening CRC crisis have challenged the group’s disgraced former board to explain their actions to people dependent on the service.

ON Dec 7, 2007, Jim Nugent told the Mahon Tribunal, under oath, that he had been involved in a whip-around for Bertie Ahern.

Garda detectives feel they are now outgunned by crime gangs who are importing automatic weapons from Eastern Europe.

YOU have no idea how lucky you are.

Evelyn Ring and Seán McCárthaigh

A MAN sexually abused as a child by a priest from Co Meath has won record damages in excess of €900,000.

British police who flew to Australia to investigate the whereabouts of an Irish former priest wanted in connection with child abuse allegations confirmed today they believe he is dead.

BRITISH police are still hunting an Irish priest accused of sex abuse, believing he may have faked his own death to avoid extradition.

The Defence Forces have confirmed that an internal inquiry will be carried out into allegations of widespread bullying and harassment of female officers.