Any religious symbolism will be removed from the cap badge of members of the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, which was formed in 1796. Either a Maltese Cross or Star of David can be found at ...

The Irish officials recorded that he was more cerebral than the average British ... Army is perceived on the ground in Northern Ireland". General Smith was a former officer in the Parachute ...

Irish diplomats had invited General Smith to dinner. The general, who was a former member of the Parachute Regiment ... Pike indicated that the ­British Army would resist any effort by the ...

publicly to name the membership of the IRA’s Army Council were “daft”, leading Irish and British officials believed. The issue was raised at a meeting in Downing Street in May 2004 between ...

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Kieran Read reacts during the 2017 series against the British and Irish Lions (Photo by Michael Bradley/AFP via Getty Images) Now, ahead of a trip where Andy Farrell has succeeded Warren Gatland as ...

Dublin, 18 December 1922 – The British army has been fully evacuated from the Irish Free State ... about 2,000 troops representing the various regiments: the Wiltshires, Worcesters, Leicesters ...

Shortages of Guinness in Britain may be putting a dampener on some people’s Christmas outings but Irish drinkers are ... how popular Guinness is with the British. “It definitely has become ...

The British and Irish Lions squad will be named in April ... and it is surely only a matter of time before a first England cap. While the back row will be highly competitive for the Lions with ...

The report was commissioned in the wake of the controversy over Cathal Crotty, an Army private who was spared ... Woman assaulted by Irish soldier calls for new hate crime laws in Pride ...

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General Sir Patrick Sanders said modernisation would take time that was in “short supply” as the Army seeks to become more lethal. He also said British troops had found themselves in a similar ...