A report in the Guardian 25 Oct 2012 reveals that Britain has recently rejected US requests to use UK bases in its nuclear standoff with Iran because of secret legal advice that any pre-emptive strike could be in breach of international law.

It’s been claimed that due to a raft of cuts, the military can’t defend the security of the State to the same extent it did five years ago and would be under pressure to cope if the threat from subversives increases.

For the first time since the Naval Service admitted women, there were no female officers commissioned yesterday.

ACC Bank has told the High Court that it will challenge a ruling yesterday in the Northern Ireland High Court declaring a Co Wicklow businessman a bankrupt.

ACC Bank has told a High Court hearing that it has come as a huge surprise that a builder with an address in Co Wicklow was declared a bankrupt in the North yesterday.

Enda Kenny claims his administration has “retrieved and reinstated” the values of the founders of the Free State and put them at the heart of government policy.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has vowed not to rest until the Government has restored Ireland’s economic sovereignty.

History will be made on Sunday when the first incumbent Taoiseach gives the oration at the 90th anniversary commemoration of General Michael Collins’ death.

Businessman Don Tidey has paid tribute to a fallen soldier who made the “supreme sacrifice” while assisting in his rescue from a gang of Provisional IRA kidnappers almost 30 years ago.

THE late editor of the Sunday Independent Aengus Fanning was remembered yesterday as a newspaperman who had showed courage in exposing the hidden evils of Irish society.

THE Defence Forces is at its lowest strength since the foundation of the state and officers, “who are double and treble-jobbing” to fill the void, have warned any further cuts will have very serious consequences for their ability to serve the nation’s interests

DEFENCE Minister Alan Shatter has said it “was absolutely clear” the road where the men died should have been cleared of booby traps before being used to source stones to fortify bases.

RELATIVES of three UN peacekeepers murdered in 1989 have hailed an independent inquiry into the incident as enough to expose a 22-year army cover-up.

Relatives of Corporal Fintan Heneghan, Private Mannix Armstrong, and Private Thomas Walsh have finally, after more than 22 years, received apologies on behalf of the Army from Lieutenant General Seán McCann, the Chief of Defence Forces, and on behalf of the state from Alan Shatter, the Minister for Justice.

Bereaved families of three Irish soldiers killed by a landmine in Lebanon 22 years ago said they have finally been vindicated.

A MONUMENT unveiled yesterday in honour of a brave young Irish soldier, who has been missing in action for 50 years, will help ensure his memory and sacrifice endures, his family said.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II was formally welcomed to Ireland by the President Mary McAleese at Áras an Uachtaráin yesterday at her first official engagement at the start of her historic four-day state visit.

IT MAY go down in the history books as having finally drawn a line under centuries of animosity between two neighbouring nations.

Prince Albert II of Monaco wished the Government every success tackling economic woes as he strolled through Dublin with his fiancée on a three-day State visit.

Prince Albert II of Monaco has arrived in Ireland at the start of a three-day state visit.

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

IRISH soldiers are to be deployed to a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon in the new year.

Hundreds of Irish soldiers are to be deployed to a peace-keeping mission in Lebanon in the new year, it was announced today.

Former Defence Forces Chief of Staff Dermot Earley was a mighty Irish legend who was loved and revered around the country, his funeral Mass heard today.

HUGE crowds queued for up to three hours to pay their respects to the former Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Lieutenant General Dermot Earley, as his coffin lay in the garrison church at the Curragh yesterday.

The former Defence Forces Chief of Staff Dermot Earley has died, it was announced today.

Lieutenant General Dermot Early is to retire from the Defence Forces due to ill health.

ARMY and police officers from the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland and Ireland have descended upon the north Cork hills for the first ever international training camp on detecting and dismantling bombs.

LOUTH attacker Aaron Hoey has been ruled out of his county’s Leinster SFC opener against Carlow at Parnell Park next Sunday after tearing a hamstring in training over the weekend.

STUDENTS are losing their entitlement to a full education as teacher training is being provided during school time, a managers’ leader claimed yesterday.

SCHOOLS in poorer areas which previously got extra help to keep students in education are in danger of becoming victims of their own success, a management leader has warned.

PAUL NOONE returns to the Roscommon team for tomorrow’s Connacht SFC semi-final replay with Leitrim at Dr Hyde Park.

AN accountant who was caught viewing child porn on the internet at work walked free from court yesterday.

Gardaí in Naas have issued an appeal for any information relating to a man, in his late sixties, who has been missing since last Thursday.