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An ancestor of visiting Canadian prime minister Mark Carney took part in a ‘great cattle drive’ in defiance of landowner Lord Sligo
Sun shines on Mark Carney as Aughagower welcomes world leader
With its small stone bridges and babbling stream, the Co Mayo village made for a picture-postcard backdrop for a returning Irish emigrant
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney returns ‘home’ to Co Mayo
Premier traces his heritage back to Aughagower, where his grandparents were born
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s grandfather’s heroics during the Civil War
Robert Carney held off a mob of anti-Treaty demonstrators who tried to storm a guard station in Co Wicklow
Mark Carney pays tribute to John De Chastelain in Dublin lecture
Canadian general ‘helped forge’ Northern Ireland peace process, prime minister says
Canadian prime minister has ‘every confidence’ in Irish investigation into alumina exports
Carney and Martin welcome opportunity to ‘strengthen the bilateral relationship between Ireland and Canada’
Canadian tech group OpenText to create 400 jobs in Ireland over three years
Business investing €105m to grow presence in Ireland as it expands its agentic AI and sovereign cloud capabilities in Europe
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Tense scenes at Belfast protests, and Mayo village prepares for Canadian prime minister’s visit
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‘He looks awful like Gramps Carney’: Mayo relatives set for visit of Canada’s PM
Mark Carney will visit the village of Aughagower this Sunday where his ancestors hailed from
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney to visit Ireland next week
Carney will make trip to Co Mayo to see grandparents’ home place
Mark Carney proves Donald Trump can win elections outside his own country
Carney’s unexpected victory in the Canadian election proved the US president is such a political force that he can win elections outside his own country
Alberta is flirting with independence. Is Canada facing a messy break-up?
Prime minister Mark Carney has warned of a Brexit-like mistake
Canada’s ‘doors are open’ for Irish and European businesses, entrepreneurs told
Irish entrepreneurs visit Toronto at pivotal moment, as part of EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards programme
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Mark Carney tells Irish business leaders of Canada’s desire for closer trade links
Mark Carney met with some 150 Irish business leaders in Ottawa
Government prepares to ratify Canada trade deal before summer
Legislation to clear path for ratification goes to Seanad on Wednesday
Canada contribution and Iran backdrop give Armenia summit feeling of Trump-therapy session
Decision to host eighth European Political Community meeting in Yerevan a notable statement and red rag to Moscow
Band-Aid solutions won’t cut it in a world of tariffs, reckless wars and Chinese dominance
We are frittering away the substantial tax resources that have come to us as a side effect of financial engineering of American companies
Ireland needs to grow up and get serious about its interests
In the infantile recent debate about the Mercosur deal, for example, politicians from all sides fell over each other to criticise an agreement profoundly in Ireland’s interests
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Suspect in Canadian mass shooting named as 18-year-old Jesse van Rootselaar
More than two dozen people hospitalised in one of worst mass shootings in country’s history
Breaking up is hard to do: Europe confronts end of the old order
A year on from JD Vance’s bombshell speech in Munich, European leaders are searching for a post-American future
White House shamrock ceremony now worth about as much as a Melania meme coin
A level of diplomatic engagement can surely be maintained without the studied humiliation of presenting our national emblem to an autocrat
Donald Trump threatens to block opening of bridge to Canada in new row
US president says Gordie Howe Bridge will open only when US is ‘fully compensated’ – and makes bizarre hockey claim
Deportations and Shannon Airport
The use of Shannon Airport by Ice and the US military is a flagrant abuse of Irish neutrality
Donald Trump could deflect Maga criticism of AI for the loss of jobs in US towards Ireland
If the AI sector collapses, Trump might try to blame over-regulation in Europe
EU could learn from Canada to up its game on human rights
Certainly this is a good time to move closer to Canada
We owe Mark Carney thanks for the reminder that the arc of history doesn’t bend to bullies
Worldview: In a remarkable speech in Davos, Canada’s PM Mark Carney spoke through the fog of diplomatic niceties of ‘a rupture in the world order’
Trump is learning he can’t always get what he wants. But neither can Ireland
Big American multinationals are ramping up their US investments - and this could have worrying implications for Ireland
Keir Starmer meets Xi Jinping in Beijing as UK-China ties warm
Mutual trust is foundation for development of relationship between countries, Chinese president tells British PM
Leaders need to rethink ‘intelligence’ in an increasingly ruptured world
Limited understanding and measurement of human intelligence has led to business models that amplify social division
Ireland’s reluctance to speak out against Trump’s Board of Peace is shameful
The UN isn’t perfect but it does preserve the rules and principles that protect our freedoms through a system of state oversight
Could Ireland be the connecting point for a subsea super-cable linking Europe and Canada?
It would be both a source of power and a powerful symbol of the connections Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has talked about forging
Trump threatens new 100 per cent tariffs on Canada if it secures China trade deal
US president had recently encouraged Canadian prime minister Mark Carney to strike the agreement
Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs if it makes trade deal with China
China and Canada recently reached wide-ranging agreement to lower economic barriers and rebuild ties
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Donald Trump may have made a U-turn on Greenland, but the rupture between Europe and the US is permanent
Trump rescinds Canada’s invitation to join his ‘Board of Peace’
US president’s public snub of Carney was the latest blow to relations between the United States and Canada
Rupture or kerfuffle? Trump’s display in the mad theatre of Davos has European heads in a spin
It may be premature to think the US-European bond has been severed by a president with a short attention span and plummeting domestic support
How should the EU deal with Trump? Speak softly and carry a big stick
The US is clearly a more formidable power than the UK but the EU has some serious firepower at its disposal. With a wealthy population of 450 million it is the most attractive market on the globe
Trump’s Greenland climbdown brings relief but way forward unclear
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen says she will engage in constructive talks, provided there is respect for her country’s territorial integrity
Is the alliance between Europe and America over?
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Mark Carney says rules-based global order is over, offers blueprint for ‘third path’
Canada’s prime minister calls on middle powers to act as counterweight to US and China in remarkable Davos speech
Carney tells Davos the old world order is ‘not coming back’ as Trump heads to Switzerland
Canadian prime minister gives damning assessment of US president’s impact on global politics at World Economic Forum
Coercion from aggressive superpowers must be resisted, says Canadian PM
Mark Carney says he stands firmly behind Greenland as tensions rise over Trump’s statements US must own territory
Canada-China partnership ‘sets us up well for the new world order’, says Mark Carney
Canadian PM meets Xi Jinping in Beijing and agrees to cut tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
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Failure to join EU rearmament fund shows UK stuck in post-Brexit strategic cul-de-sac
EU and Canada seek greater autonomy from US, while Britain highlights ‘number one spear carrier’ role for Washington
‘Make them see something’: Political communication skills, from Ivan Yates to Zohran Mamdani
Against the background of the Fianna Fáil media coaching controversy, a leading political communications trainer puts our reporter through his paces
Donald Trump ends trade talks with Canada over anti-tariff advert
Ad showed Ronald Regan’s criticism of tariffs
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