Ireland’s planned purchase of combat jets and the development of a long-overdue national radar system mark a historic turning ...

Ireland’s Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minster) and Defence Minister Simon Harris has instructed “groundwork” to begin on the ...

The US decision to halt the supply of military aid to Ukraine was announced after stock markets closed on 3 March but it ...

Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Simon Harris is now “convinced” of the need for the State to acquire combat jet aircraft to ...

Ireland does not have its own capability to police its airspace and does not have any fighter jets to respond to airborne ...

THE government will spend up to €100 million a year on fighter jets as part of a major upgrade of our defence capability.

Experts say such a plan will be a massive cost to the taxpayer, with a potential price tag of around €1 billion.

For the past 50 years, the Republic of Ireland has relied on the United Kingdom to provide air cover in the face of an ...

The MiG-35 was intended to be Russia’s answer to modern multi-role fighters, evolving from the MiG-29 with improved avionics, ...

Ireland is preparing to change legislation that restricts the deployment of more than 12 military forces abroad. This is part ...

This has been the subject matter of often incendiary discourse since the Second World War, or The Emergency as was known in ...