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

Ireland does not have its own air force, but provocations from Russia have prompted it to change its defence policy. For the ...

Ireland does not have an air force, but provocations from Russia have prompted a change in its defense policy. For the first ...

Few countries in the developed world are without fighter jets. Combat aircraft fast enough to intercept an aerial threat are considered the backbone of a capable air defense, and most nations maintain ...

Simon Harris says he is convinced of need to acquire combat jet aircraft to ‘deter and detect’ airborne threats as part of ...

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

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

Officials in the Department of Defence have been asked to cost a massive expansion of the Irish military, including the ...

Ireland needs new radars to see what is flying above our airspace before we go about purchasing fighter jets, a security ...

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

Boost to Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing’ as Dublin pushes to expand its military and put boots on the ground ...