Business Post logo
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • Log
  • menu
  • menu
  • Sport
  • Personal Finance
  • Companies
  • Data
  • US
  • SMEs
  • Health
  • Legal
  • Climate & Environment
  • Housing
  • Podcasts
  • Focus On
  • Crosswords
Close menu
  • My BP
  • News
  • Politics
  • News Focus
  • Analysis & Opinion
  • Tech
  • Life & Arts
  • Property
  • Food & Wine
  • Irish Tatler
  • Benefits

MENU

  • My BP
  • News
  • Politics
  • News Focus
  • Analysis & Opinion
  • Tech
  • Life & Arts
  • Property
  • Benefits
  • E-Reader
  • Podcasts
  • Crosswords
  • My Business Post
  • Focus on
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Security

Politics

Coalition leaders confirm move to axe army ‘triple-lock’

Government party leaders believe mechanism where the deployment of Irish troops requires a government decision, a Dáil vote and a UN resolution is ‘no longer sustainable’ in current format
  • Daniel Murrayand
  • Daniel McConnell
  • May 21, 2023
Defence

Government signals defence changes but ‘no secret plan’ to join Nato

The Consultative Forum on International Security Policy is set to take place in June across four days and three venues in Cork, Galway and Dublin
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 18, 2023
Defence

Ireland mulls joining Nato subsea group after Russian boat activity

Nato last week completed subsea military exercises in waters just North of Ireland between Iceland and Norway
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 14, 2023
Defence

Ireland not relying on UK air force to ‘patrol’ Irish skies - Martin

The Tánaiste said that reports of an air space defence deal between Ireland and the UK were inaccurate
  • Business Post
  • May 9, 2023
china

Ryan and officials get ‘burner phones’ for Chinese visit

National Cyber Security Centre warns environment minister and functionaries they will likely be under surveillance at all times during St Patrick’s Day trip
  • Daniel Murrayand
  • Lorcan Allen
  • March 12, 2023
US

US shoots down another unidentified object in American airspace

Beijing says US balloons trespassed more than 10 times in Chinese airspace
  • Bloomberg
  • February 13, 2023
Politics

CCTV cameras in Leinster House could be reporting to China

Hikvision, the company that makes the Chinese-made surveillance cameras, has been banned from several jurisdictions and institutions because of major security concerns, government is warned
  • Daniel Murray
  • February 11, 2023
Sport

Croke Park more expensive than Wembley, but Katie Taylor fight scuppered by security costs

Officials have said the main issue was around who would pay to manage crowds around the Dublin stadium
  • Ellie Donnelly
  • February 2, 2023
Technology

Adventures in Technophobia: Garmin’s all seeing, all knowing dash cam hits the market

Surveillance is everything in 2023, and the first big tech drop of the year is a dash cam with a bucket load of monitoring features
  • Jessie Collins
  • January 14, 2023
Energy

Security of Ireland’s energy infrastructure being ‘monitored’ after Nord Stream attack

Officials are paying close attention to energy security ahead of a difficult winter period
  • Daniel Murray
  • October 4, 2022
Business Post's View

Editorial: We must move fast to safeguard our gas arrangement with Britain

If our government thinks a technical arrangement wouldn’t be superseded by a political one in the event of emergency gas shortages this winter, it is guilty of naivety
  • Business Post
  • July 16, 2022
Politics

Security spend at homes of ministers and officials to top €3m

By the end of this year, the state expects that security arrangements at private residences will have cost more than €3m since 2018
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 2, 2022

Mellett: Ireland’s best answer to Russian power is renewable energy

Europe needs to wean itself off Russian hydrocarbons, and Ireland can help it by providing offshore win, according to the former Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces
  • Emmet Ryan
  • March 13, 2022

Editorial: Russian power play means we must increase self-sufficiency

Energy independence and increased defence capabilities are just two of the areas where Ireland needs to up its game
  • March 13, 2022

Lucinda Creighton: Attacks on the elderly should be a national call to action, not just to words of sympathy

We have become almost numb to reports of robberies and assaults on older people. Much more can, and must, be done to make all our citizens feel safe in their own homes
  • Lucinda Creighton
  • February 20, 2022

Citizens’ Assembly could hold key to Defence Forces’ future

UCD academic Ben Tonra has said a civic forum would be ‘perfect’ to kick-start a national conversation on the role and function of the Irish military
  • Barry J Whyte
  • February 6, 2022

Ukraine preparing for ‘full-scale invasion’ by Russia

Western countries must impose sanctions on Russia now, according to Ukraine’s ambassador to Ireland
  • Daniel Murray
  • January 26, 2022

Security Watch: keeping the beast at bay

Targeted, multi-stage ransomware attacks are expected to cost the global economy $6 trillion this year. Róisín Kiberd examines the ways to prevent them
  • Róisín Kiberd
  • November 28, 2021

Reimagining the perimeter

Róisín Kiberd examines the best means to improve endpoint and network security
  • Róisín Kiberd
  • September 26, 2021

Lucinda Creighton: Paris terror trial won’t change the past but will serve to remind us of an ever-present threat

The EU responded to the Paris attacks with new counter-terrorism measures, but more needs to be done, not least reckoning with jihadis who are EU citizens
  • Lucinda Creighton
  • September 12, 2021

Business Post
Contact
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Data Access Request
Follow us
Download the app
Business Post Google App
Business Post iOS App
Part of the
Business Post Group