The British army's operation in Northern Ireland ends after nearly 40 years. Operation Banner was the army's longest continuous campaign, with more than 300,000 personnel.

AN armour-plated lookout post from a disused army base in Holywood has been ... a sole trader in Lurgan said it was “part of Northern Ireland history, good man cave”. Speaking to The Irish ...

Army veterans will this week launch a campaign against what some feel is Labour's 'total betrayal' of soldiers who served in the Northern Ireland Troubles. They will make last-ditch appeals to Sir ...

Veterans who served in the British Army during the Northern Ireland troubles have marched on Parliament calling for the retention of the Legacy Act. It comes as the current Labour Government is to ...

General Sir Frank Kitson, pictured in 1980, was known for the deployment of counter-terrorist tactics in Northern Ireland One of the most senior Army officers to serve in Northern Ireland during ...

The scale of the British army’s presence in Northern Ireland during the Troubles is staggering. More than a quarter of a million troops served in Operation Banner, the army’s longest ...

A quarter of a century has now passed since a peace deal ended the Troubles in Northern Ireland. By the time the last Army personnel left their stations across the Irish Sea almost 40 years had ...

Hopes of equality are lost as a civil rights movement is suppressed. The British Army is deployed and Northern Ireland descends into conflict. In 1968 tensions between Catholic and Protestant ...

Previously a number of British Army veterans had been pursued in the courts over incidents which happened during the Troubles. The Act was opposed by victims’ groups in Northern Ireland and all ...