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

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 ...

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

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

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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 Taoiseach has said he is open to sending Irish troops to Ukraine to keep the peace if a ceasefire deal is struck.

Ireland should declare war on poverty, homelessness and ill health at home, rather than send its soldiers to die in someone ...

In the 1980s, Irish soldiers supplied the orphanage with food and helped to equip and install bedrooms. Irish medics serving with the UN also do health checks on the children and provide an ...

Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty has called for a referendum on Irish neutrality following the Cabinet's decision to remove the ...

He suggested troops from China or India could be Putin ... to prepare legislation removing the requirement here for UN approval for Irish deployments. The new Coalition Government of Fianna ...