Tánaiste Simon Harris is due to bring proposals to Cabinet that would increase the number of troops Ireland can send abroad ...

Children had to be evacuated from Tibnin Orphanage in south Lebanon after bomb caused €150,000 worth of damage ...

DRAFT legislation to amend Ireland’s “triple lock” on the deployment of Defence Forces peacekeepers overseas will be brought to cabinet this week, Tanaiste Simon Harris has said. Mr Harris said ...

The Irish Cabinet has approved draft legislation to change the rules that govern how its military can be used abroad.

The Government is preparing legislation that would change the Triple Lock and make it easier to deploy Irish troops abroad.

Over 60 years have passed since ‘A’ Company of the 35th Battalion, a force of just over 150 Irish UN troops, held out against an overwhelming force of over 3,000 Katangese soldiers and ...

Draft legislation to amend Ireland’s “triple lock” on the deployment of Defence Forces peacekeepers overseas will be brought to Cabinet this week, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said.

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The Triple Lock is the rule which dictates when Irish soldiers can be sent abroad on peacekeeping missions. After Ireland joined the UN in 1955 it was agreed that we could send troops on ...

The Irish government has passed a bill that allows sending troops to Ukraine to protect Irish officials. This was reported on ...

A columnist has described the Triple Lock as an “absolute joke” and urged Irish people not to “delude ourselves” that the ...

Public opposition to their deployment has surged since 14 South African and three Malawian peacekeepers were killed by M23 ...