Yvonne Murray

Global Security Reporter

Ireland to attend Africa's first G20, as US boycotts

Ireland will attend the G20 Summit in Johannesburg next weekend amid a US boycott. The US President Donald Trump condemned South Africa's hosting of the summit of the world's top economies as a "total disgrace".

Analysis and Comment • 15 Nov

Photo of Irishman Alex Ryzhuk, who was killed in Ukraine

Funeral of Irish man killed in Ukraine tomorrow

The funeral of Irish man Alex Ryzhuk, who was killed in Ukraine last year, will take place tomorrow in the western Ukrainian village of Kryliv.

Ukraine • 11 Nov

Lots of smoking chimneys in a dark environment

US and China were once united on climate, no longer

A little more than ten years ago, the US and China's joint commitment to combat climate change paved the way for the Paris Agreement. Now the US has turned its back on climate policy while China forges ahead with renewables. Will the world have to choose between the petrostate and the electrostate?

Analysis and Comment • 06 Nov

The USS Gravely warship is seen at a distance off the coast of Port of Spain on October 26, 2025, as fishermen look from the Trinidadian capital. The US warship will visit Trinidad and Tobago for joint exercises near the coast of Venezuela amid Washington

US strikes on boats stoke fears of regional conflict

As details of the human cost of US strikes on boats in Latin America have begun to emerge, some regional leaders have declared support for US unilateral military action exposing a complex pattern of converging interests, amid fears of spiralling conflict.

Analysis and Comment • 01 Nov

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on March 30, 2017 shows China's President Xi Jinping (L) delivering a speech on the opening day of the World Economic Forum, on January 17, 2017 in Davos, and US President Donald Trump (R) announcing the final

Trade, Taiwan and TikTok to dominate Trump-Xi meeting

Tensions between the world's two most powerful countries, the US and China, are rising over trade and national security. A meeting of China's elites revealed plans to press ahead with tech innovation and manufacturing self-reliance as the US and Europe rail against China's supply chain dominance.

Analysis and Comment • 25 Oct

Protesters react as they push a metal container to use as a barricade during clashes with Malagasy security forces amid a strike calling for constitutional reforms and the resignation of President Andry Rajoelina in Antananarivo, on October 9, 2025. Prote

Governments topple as youth protests spread worldwide

A wave of Gen Z protests have spread across the world from South East Asia to Sub Saharan Africa, with a range of grievances from govenment corruption to poor public services to internet censorship. Whether they will usher in a new political reality is hard to predict but change is afoot.

Analysis and Comment • 19 Oct

Composite of Morrison visa recipients Fergal O’Brien and Orla Maguire

'Optimism and success' - Gala celebrates Morrison visas

45,000 Irish people went to America under the Morrison Visa programme between 1992 and 1995, reporter Yvonne Murray meets some of those recipients at a glitzy gala dinner at the top of the Rockefeller Centre in New York to hear their stories.

World • 03 Oct

Photo shows a collage of Irish people who were recipients of Morrison visas in the 1990s

Legacy of 'Morrison Visa' to be celebrated in New York

Immigration is very unpopular in US politics today - but it wasn't always the case.

World • 01 Oct

Climate Week goes on as Trump blasts 'con job'

It was an unusual start to the annual Climate Week with US President Donald Trump labelling climate change "a hoax" and "the greatest con job". While spirits weren't dampened, America's divergence sees the conversation shift from decarbonisation to energy security, writes Yvonne Murray.

Analysis and Comment • 28 Sep

No security guarantees but 'weapons, friends' - Zelensky

There are no security guarantees apart from "weapons and friends," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the United Nations General Assembly.

Ukraine • 26 Sep