More than 900 people from the Republic of Ireland applied to join the British army over the past three years even as numbers serving in the Irish Defence Forces have fallen to historical lows.

Published in "Folkmakt, No, 1".

Listen as you read for extra detail from Cara McGoogan’s investigation into the biggest cover-up of the Northern Ireland Troubles ... a covert unit of the British Army called the Force Research ...

Before 1922, all of Ireland was ruled directly from Westminster close WestminsterThe London location of the British government ... with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and, post-1969, the ...

On 14th August, 1969, the British Army first appeared on the streets of Northern Ireland. This report from Póilín Ní Chiaráin looks at those twenty years. Report shows troops in Derry ...

Woodenbridge, 21 September 1914 - John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, has called on members of the Irish Volunteers to join the British Army. He said: ‘Go on drilling and ...

Both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are under the top-level red weather warnings for wind from early on Friday.