British Army

Leading construction company Henry Brothers, which is headquartered in Northern Ireland, has completed an £11 million welfare hub designed to support new recruits at the Army Training Centre Pirbright

NI construction firm delivers £11m welfare hub at British soldiers’ centre

A BBC NI news article, reflecting controversy over a BBC television depiction of the SAS, has kicked off a controversy of its own after describing the regiment as "infamous". Photo shows a scene from the corporation's drama SAS: Rogue Heroes. Jack O'Connell (left) plays Paddy Mayne and Connor Swindells (right) is David Stirling.

BBC 'needs to reflect on culture' after SAS description

James McClean of Wrexham stood away from his team-mates during the minute’s silence last weekend

Ex-NI captain 'commends bravery' of James McClean poppy stance

Liam Love who was killed by a mortar bomb in Lyman in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine in October

Father pays tribute to soldier son as ‘brave soul’ after his death in Ukraine

Morning View

Editorial: General was a leader in an army that helped to prevent civil war in N...

BEF riflemen at the Battle of Mons on August 23 1914, the first major British engagement of the Great War

Battle of Mons showed BEF could punch above its weight

UUP MLA Steve Aiken OBE was responding to the UK Defence Journal tweeting that the British Army has now fallen to 73,000 personnel.

Aiken concerned at army and navy readiness figures

Mary Lamb left 'battered and bruised' after 'climbing' the Three Peaks

Two dogged detectives investigate the skydiving death of Victoria Cilliers

Tuesday TV choice: The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot (Channel 4, 9pm)

Britain's King Charles III (L) meets Latvia's President Edgars Rinkevics during a private audience at Buckingham Palace in central London on May 28, 2024

Armoy confirms Trooping the Colour to go ahead next month

Regimental Lieutenant Colonel, Major General Sir Christopher Ghika, (fifth left) and his wife, Lady Ghika, posing with members of the Irish Guards for a family picture at Mons Barracks, Aldershot

Irish Guards cheer for absent Princess of Wales at St Patrick’s Day parade

The front cover of the Operation Kenova Interim Report into Stakeknife, the British Army's top agent inside the IRA in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, at Stormont Hotel in Belfast. Kenova has probed the activities of the agent Stakeknife within the Provisional IRA. Stakeknife was part of the terror group's internal security unit and Kenova examined crimes such as murder and torture, and the role played by the security services, including MI5

Operation Kenova: major report is published into the activities of Stakeknife

Colonel Tim Collins - UUP photo

Veteran Tim Collins to run for Ulster Unionists at next general election

Morning View

Editorial: BBC report on death of General Kitson fails to show balance

Pictured are John Sowter, Justin Hicklin and Stuart Rowles from leading contractor Henry Brothers pictured at a ground-breaking event for a £22.5m scheme at Beacon Barracks in Staffordshire with representatives from NATO, 280 Signal Squadron and the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) (Chris Terry photography)

Northern Ireland construction firm starts work on £22.5m British Army project

King Charles III

King Charles to receive Scottish crown jewels to mark coronation
King Charles is to be presented with the Scottish crown jewels during a ceremony in Edinburgh to mark the coronation.
Sam Johnson

King Charles

King Charles pays tribute to troops to mark Armed Forces Day 2023

The coronation flypast could be cancelled due to bad weather

Coronation flypast given green light following weather concerns

The previous attorney general, John Larkin, had refused the request for a fresh inquest

New inquest ordered over 1972 Royal Navy veteran shooting

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, speaking with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky as they look at destroyed Russian military vehicles in Kyiv, Ukraine in November.
Mr Sunak is coming under pressure to make major investment in the British army in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Former NI officers affirm US view that cutbacks damaged UK army

Iraq War veteran Colonel Tim Collins has strongly criticised Prince Harry for openly stating how many Taliban fighters he killed in Afghanistan.

Tim Collins slams Harry’s claim of killing 25 Taliban in Afghanistan

Jo Egan.

Tributes to NI-based playwright who died after crash

Thales in East Belfast

Belfast weapons factory receives contract to produce anti-tank missiles

Soldiers of The Queen’s Company of the Grenadier Guards carry the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II Funeral: why they are bearers of the Queen’s coffin

Prince William, Prince of Wales, King Charles III, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, Anne, Princess Royal and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex walk behind the coffin during the procession for the Lying-in State of Queen Elizabeth II

Will Prince Harry Duke of Sussex wear military uniform for the Queen's funeral

The order of service for Bloody Friday anniversary memorial, which did not even say what happened. Sinn Fein attended the commemoration, which did not even mention that the IRA were the massacre culprits

Ben Lowry: Imagine a Bloody Sunday memorial that didn’t mention the Paras

A contingent of Irish Guards (with wolfhound mascot) parading through east Belfast in 2011 after returning from Afghanistan

Military parade in Newtownards planned this weekend to honour the Irish Guards
A military parade is set to he staged this weekend in honour of one of the British Army’s Irish regiments, the Irish Guards.
Adam Kula

Army history to be featured in new GAA centre at Ballykinlar

Undated handout photo issued by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Second Lieutenant Emily Smith (right), with some of the first women infantry soldiers and officers taking part in Exercise Olive Grove in Jordan, working alongside the Jordanian Armed Forces. Women could not serve in the British Army's infantry in close combat roles until December 2018.

Thiepval officer happy to blaze trail for women

UK soldier with an NLAW

VIDEO: Ukrainian forces reportedly armed with Belfast-built bazookas

Bronagh Murray

Worker gets £560,000 for Army harassment

News Letter editorial

Bloody Sunday was a horrifying turning point after other terrible killings

UUP leader, Doug Beattie MC, welcomed the announcement

Army restructuring: boost for troops in Northern Ireland with additional reserve...

Author Brendan Lynch’s ‘The Old Gunner and His Medals’ tells the story of Gunner Dan after he had survived the Great War and returned to a very different Ireland he had sailed away from. A tale of the erasure of the war dead memory from the narrative of the Irish Free State

Henry McDonald: Touching novel raises the plight of Irish world war veterans

Dick and Angel Strawbridge

Oh là là Escape to the Chateau is returns

The Official IRA terrorist Joe McCann, whose 1972 killing led to two elderly soldiers being tried for murder. "The sad fact is that had he not died he would probably have gone on to kill many more times," writes Dr Bill Duff

Ex Para: We soldiers feared becoming 16th victim of the IRA terrorist Joe McCann

Westminster was warned repeatedly that these prosecutions were vexatious

Lawyer: Protection for soldiers is being thwarted by Northern Ireland politics

A policeman walks through the aftermath of an INLA car bomb attack against the village of Newtownhamilton, Co Armagh, on June 24, 1998; the explosives detonated just as RUC officers were clearing people away from the area, wounding at least three people and wrecking the village’s centre

Doug Beattie: Plan for a Troubles crime force would keep RUC / Army in crosshair...

Letter to the editor

Violence is not the answer, for me the answer is politics through the TUV

Army to be cut by 10,000 soldiers - but experts fear it could leave UK vulnerable (Photo: Shutterstock)

Army to be cut by 10,000 soldiers - but experts fear it could leave UK vulnerabl...

Brandon Lewis

Belfast firm secures £98m air defence contract to build missiles

Sinn Fein describes plan to help forces veterans as ‘provocative’

Poppies

Mid and East Antrim Council vows veterans’ support

Army enlisted to help roll out the Covid vaccine in the UK - this is the plan

Dublin Castle: Picture: Wikimedia Commons

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Sinn Fein ‘typhoid’ plot to murder soldiers

Rev Jim Rea:

Former soldier Darren Hardy is aiming to complete 10 Ironman-distance triathlons in 10 different locations across 10 days

NI veteran sets himself gruelling challenge

The scene in Ardglass, County Down on Saturday. Picture: Conor Kinahan:PACEMAKER PRESS

Second World War munitions recovered from Co Down harbour

Soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan

Special forces emails ‘deeply troubling’, says lawyer for shot Afghans’ relative

Pipe Major Ollie Smyth of the Campbell College Pipes and Drums

Campbell College remembers 11 Old Campbellians who lost their lives 104 years ag...

News Letter editorial

A thoughtful tribute to 10 black lives that mattered, but were murdered by terro...

Dennis Hutchings

Dennis Hutchings loses High Court challenge over discrimination against veterans...

Grand Master Edward Stevenson

Orange Order calls for day of prayer for NHS, frontline workers, families, and g...

MoD handout photo of soldiers of the Co Antrim based 2 Rifles departing RAF Flying Station Aldergrove to deploy to Kabul for a tour of duty

Co Antrim-based 2 Rifles deployment to Kabul goes ahead despite pandemic

Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Yalta in February 12, 1945, three months before VE Day. The UK was alone in the war from 1940 after the fall of France, until the US and Russia were attacked in 1941

It is proper that the countries that defeated Hitler commemorate and celebrate V...

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