Tánaiste Simon Harris is due to bring proposals to Cabinet that would increase the number of troops Ireland can send abroad without triggering the lock from 12 to 50 ...

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

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

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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 ...

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 State is safe from attack.

THIS week, the Cabinet agreed to end the Triple Lock system and enable the Irish government to send its soldiers overseas without UN approval – sparking a furious political reaction. It came as ...

Ireland moved on Tuesday to remove a law that prevents the deployment of its troops without U.N. approval, with Prime Minister Micheal Martin saying he did not want Russia, China or the United States ...

Irish troops will not be sent to Ukraine to participate in a “deterrent force”, Prime Minister Micheal Martin said Wednesday, ...

They include Congolese government soldiers, foreign mercenaries, a United Nations peacekeeping force and more than 100 groups ...