Clondalkin Garda station was closed on Sunday night as the Defence Forces bomb disposal unit was rushed in to deal with the ...

In total, 1,636 personnel have already received monetary compensation from the Department of Defence for the alleged breaches ...

We need to face up to the nuances and quirks of our neutrality while acknowledging the malaise in the Defence Forces charged to defend it, writes Colin Sheridan ...

Police said “nothing untoward” was found during a security alert in east Belfast. Two bomb disposal vans were deployed to the ...

IRELAND’S military stands at just 7,500 soldiers – 2,000 troops below the required strength to protect the country. Decades of under investment, poor pay and conditions have resulted in our ...

As a man appeared in Belfast Magistrates Court last week on explosives charges, his neighbours in the south of the city told ...

The skill and bravery of the Irish Army bomb disposal officers is impressive – approaching a bomb laden with 500kg of explosive, and with German fusing mechanisms that they would not have had the ...

Bomb disposal teams were dispatched, and thorough inspections were conducted, but no explosives were found. The emails claimed RDX had been planted in the schools and contained some text in Tamil.

A Cork-based Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit (EOD ... this morning’s pipe-bomb attack as the device had already exploded. A spokesperson told the Irish Mirror: “Gardaí are investigating ...

Comrades, relatives and friends of an Army bomb disposal expert killed while clearing munitions in southern Iraq gathered today to pay tribute to his courage. The widow and four-year-old son of ...

The driver was taken into custody and an army bomb disposal team alerted after the discovery of what was suspected to be some sort of device in the vehicle. Families in several nearby houses were ...

Healy added that a number of Irish soldiers did not come to India as “committed imperialists” but because of the military tradition in their families. “This is a most peculiar situation where the ...