Ireland is not a member of NATO, and invests only 0.2 percent of its GDP in defense—leading to widespread accusations of "free-riding" on European security guarantees.

The deal, first revealed by the Irish Mirror last year, will see the Defence Forces get several new models of armoured vehicles as well as the deadly Caesar artillery systems ...

Despite all the incidents and all the analysis and warnings, we don’t have an actual structure in Ireland to counter hybrid threats ...