{"id":319669,"date":"2026-02-27T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319669\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:06:08","slug":"why-is-ireland-buying-weapons-from-france-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319669\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Ireland buying weapons from France? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ireland is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/02\/26\/ireland-signs-agreement-with-france-for-joint-military-training-and-intel-sharing\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/02\/26\/ireland-signs-agreement-with-france-for-joint-military-training-and-intel-sharing\/\">buy hundreds of new armoured vehicles <\/a>and artillery pieces from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france\/\">France<\/a>, a move that will significantly expand the capabilities of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/defence-forces\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/defence-forces\/\">Irish Army<\/a> to conduct on-island defence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The deal is expected to be worth \u20ac600 million and is the biggest investment in Army equipment in the history of the State. It is one of several deals with French suppliers to provide a range of equipment and services with an estimated \u20ac2billion spend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The coming years will see Ireland work in closer co-operation with our European neighbours on security matters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Irish Times crime and security correspondent Conor Gallagher explains why Ireland has chosen France as its supplier of choice for the modernisation of our defence capabilities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by John Casey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland is to buy hundreds of new armoured vehicles and artillery pieces from France, a move that will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1814,61,60,93447,43],"class_list":["post-319669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-france","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-army","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}