Mr Deegan’s parents Rachel and John issued the statement after news emerged over the weekend that their son, who was just 29, ...

Video footage seen by The Irish Times captured one of Deegan’s final missions near the city of Kupiansk in Kharkiv last week.

The Mirror has confirmed that Robert Deegan, who was just 29, died protecting his colleagues from a Russian attack in eastern ...

A former member of the Defence Forces ’ elite Army Ranger Wing who was killed while fighting Russian forces in Ukraine had ...

A former member of the elite Army Ranger Wing has been killed while fighting in Ukraine, it has emerged. The Mirror has ...

THE family of a former Irish soldier who was killed in combat in Ukraine said he made the “ultimate sacrifice” and should be ...

The devastated family of a former elite Irish soldier killed in combat in Ukraine have paid tribute to him as a man of ...

A FORMER Defence Forces member has been killed in combat in Ukraine. The elite soldier, aged in his late 20s, was killed ...

Mr Deegan, who joined the Defence Forces in 2014 and had joined their elite Army Ranger wing in 2017, went to fight in ...

Robert is believed to have died covering the retreat of other members of the special forces squad called the Stugna Unit, the ...