No Irish troops hurt after strikes on UN troops in Lebanon Taoiseach Micheál Martin has condemned a “reckless” strike on a Unifil base in southern Lebanon that left a number of Ghanaian peacekeepers ...

A preliminary hearing of the inquest into the death of Irish soldier, Seán Rooney, in Lebanon over three years ago has been held partly in private to discuss matters which the Defence Forces claim are ...

Irish troops stationed in the Middle East have been forced to take shelter in bunkers as Iran steps up retaliation against Israel and the US for the assassination of their supreme leader. There are ...

The Irish premier has condemned a “reckless attack” on a United Nations interim force (Unifil) base in southern Lebanon. Taoiseach Micheal Martin said all Irish personnel serving with the UN ...

Micheal Martin said all Irish peacekeepers serving in Lebanon ‘remain safe and accounted for’. Irish peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon have been described as safe and accounted for following ...

The United States-Israeli military strikes on Iran over the weekend demonstrate a clear violation of two of the most basic principles of international law: respect for sovereignty and prohibition of ...

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The romance and myths of the American Revolution have long obscured the disproportionate contributions of the Irish, who numbered as high as half a million of America’s two million population. George ...

Just as Private Dylan Geraghty was about to fire a fatal shot at a knife-wielding attacker, the thought popped into his mind that he could manually tackle him to the ground. That split-second decision ...

President Donald Trump has joined grieving families at Dover Air Force Base as the bodies of six American soldiers killed in the war in the Middle East were returned to the US. The dignified transfer, ...