Troops have been put through their paces before deployment to Lebanon next month.

The funeral arrangements for the two Air Corps crew members who were killed after their aircraft crashed in Co Galway on Monday have been announced.

THE head of the Irish Air Corps last night paid tribute to two pilots killed on a training mission.

The two Air Corps crew members killed after their aircraft crashed in Co Galway last night have been named as 32-year-old Captain Derek Furniss and Cadet David Jevens, 22.

TWO Air Corps pilots were killed after their light aircraft crashed in Connemara, Co Galway, last evening during a training mission.

DURING his St Patrick’s Day visit to the US in 1994 former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds ordered the government jet to make an unscheduled flight from Nassau to Freeport in the Bahamas, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

A military helicopter used to save more than 500 lives in Ireland over the past four decades is to be decommissioned, it was revealed today.

An Irish fighter pilot who shot down 32 planes in the Second World War was officially honoured today for the first time in his own country.

IF it was protection from men in uniform they wanted, the 28 Rose of Tralee contestants could feel very secure during the weekend.

The head of the Irish Air Corps made a dawn flight today to mark the 75th anniversary of the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic by air.

The 75th anniversary of the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic by air will be marked this weekend by a repeat flight in a modern-day propeller aircraft.

The 75th anniversary of the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic by air will be marked this weekend by a repeat flight in a modern-day propeller aircraft.