Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Assistant Editor

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic is an Assistant Editor of The Irish Times. A former foreign-affairs correspondent, legal-affairs correspondent and Paris correspondent, he is the author of The Supreme Court.

Europe is the only place where Macron can now leave a legacy

World View: The loss of his majority leaves the French president facing the prospect of five years of gridlock

Slowly but unmistakably, Ireland and Britain are growing apart

Under the Conservatives, the two neighbours’ economies and political cultures are diverging in lasting ways

The Ukraine war will transform Europe’s demographics

If Ukrainian refugees stay in their new homes, the effect of this new diaspora will be profound for Europe and for Ukraine itself

The war neither side can afford to lose

Not knowing where his botched war on Ukraine goes next might force Putin to just dig in and wait

Macron’s grand experiment faces defining test

Runoff will reveal whether he broke the mould or facilitated far-right’s rise

Botched Ukraine invasion damages myth of Putin’s power

World View: West overestimated leader’s global clout – and maybe also his domestic muscle

Putin the invader: How did he get to this point?

Soon the West will have to consider how the Russian president can be offered an off-ramp

EU is not at the table when it comes to dealing with the crisis in Ukraine

World View: Europe’s major powers are bystanders in what is a straight fight between the US and Russia

World View: If this is war, Putin may already be winning

The threat of conflict has been enough to unsettle neighbours and win concessions

Why radicals went quiet on Europe

Far right and left parties have quietly been dropping their hardest eurosceptic policies

Macron’s ‘piss them off’ strategy claims the initiative

French president’s swipe at the unvaccinated exposes divisions to his right

Xi Jinping had a good 2021, and he ends it with an iron grip on China

The president’s path has been cleared to lead for life, but he faces problems domestically

China, the UN Human Rights Office and the Irish whistleblower

Sacking of Irishwoman Emma Reilly highlights long-standing dilemma

World View: The EU must avoid Lukashenko’s trap

Whereas Brussels once denounced states for building fences, it now helps police them

Covid could turn an incipient generational divide into a major schism

World View: A scarcity of affordable housing and secure jobs has torn the social contract