Sergeant Higgins News Today

US Army Ranger Tanner Higgins from the 1/75 Regiment was killed in action during combat actions in Logar Province, Afghanistan on April 14, 2012.

Louth County Council and An Garda Siochána have appealed for road users to take extra care

The Tanner Higgins Warrior Run will be held Saturday morning, April 9, beginning at Celebration Plaza in downtown Sulphur Springs.  this will be the 10th and final run honoring Staff Sergeant Higgins, who was killed in heavy combat in Afghanistan in 2012. The cost to register is $20 each for both th

Small photograph album compiled by Robert Henry (Harry) Fulton relating to his World War I service between 1916 and 1919. Many photographs taken by...

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Shots have been fired at a house in Coleraine in an overnight attack.

Midlands Correspondent The officer commanding a team of over 300 members of the Defence Forces who are heading to south Lebanon on the latest United Nations peacekeeping mission has insisted that all preparations necessary to combat the challenge of Covid-19 are being taken. Over the last two weeks the troops of all ranks from across the country have been completing tactical training exercises at centres in the midlands and east. Lieutenant Colonel Conor Bates said that a vaccination programme ...

Family threatened with crowbar during burglary The incident happened in Aghadowey last night. Reporter: );  ); Detectives are investigating after a family were threatened with a crowbar during a burglary on Friday night. It was reported to police at 9:15pm that, approximately an hour earlier, three masked men, forced their way into a property on Agivey Road in Aghadowey. "The suspects were all dressed in blue overalls and wore black balaclavas; two of them are reported to have had crowbars," ...

Dan, great to have you back. leroy, lets talk a little bit about what happened nine memorial days ago today? >> we were on a mission after a high value target went into a compound. as we got into there, started clearing one of the buildings inside. i waited for another guy to bump me on the shoulder. i got shot through both my thighs. sergeant behind me got shot in left shoulder in the mid section. i led him to cover behind a small building which we called a chicken coop. we got pinned down by h...