Edmund Heaphy

Deputy Foreign Editor

Edmund Heaphy is Deputy Foreign Editor of RTÉ News. He previously worked with RTÉ Investigates and Prime Time. He has reported extensively from the Middle East on the conflict in Gaza and the 7 October attacks.

Danish soldiers exit a plane at Nuuk Airport

Why Europe has drawn a line in the snow in Greenland

After a week where officials met in Washington and Denmark over Donald Trump's ongoing threat to take over Greenland, a small number of troops began arriving on the island as a powerful statement of support from allied countries, writes Deputy Foreign Editor Edmund Heaphy.

Analysis and Comment • 18 Jan

'I don't want to leave my people' - fear grips Greenland

For generations, Greenlanders felt protected by the US - the superpower that had helped defend them during World War II and maintained a reassuring military presence ever since. Now, with US threats and uncertainty looming, Edmund Heaphy speaks to resident's in Nuuk about what comes next.

Analysis and Comment • 12 Jan

The rare joint statement from the five party leaders, including Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen, said they 'strongly oppose' any US takeover of Greenland

'We will not be Americans', Greenland parties tell Trump

All five political parties in Greenland's parliament have issued a rare joint statement rejecting US President Donald Trump's threats to take control of the Arctic island.

Greenland • 10 Jan

US President Donald Trump looks through a window to observe construction work on his new ballroom

Trump's Greenland confession exposes his real motives

US President Donald Trump has built his political brand on "telling it like it is" - cutting through diplomatic niceties to say what others won't, writes our Deputy Foreign Editor Edmund Heaphy.

Analysis and Comment • 10 Jan

A statue of the Danish missionary Hans Egede, founder of Nuuk, overlooking the city of Nuuk, Greenland

Fear, not defiance, greets Trump's threats in Greenland

US President Donald Trump's threats have brought fear, not defiance, to Greenland. A cultural instinct to avoid confrontation is colliding with a moment demanding the opposite, writes Deputy Foreign Editor Edmund Heaphy from the country's capital, Nuuk.

Analysis and Comment • 09 Jan

US pretence of respecting Latin American sovereignty over

Analysis and Comment • 04 Jan

Destroyed areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza,

Gaza ceasefire seems to be holding but can it last?

The ceasefire in Gaza is more than a week old. After days of tension over the slow return of deceased hostages, Israel has tentatively accepted what Hamas insisted all along: that locating remains buried beneath Gaza's rubble will take time

Analysis and Comment • 19 Oct 25

US President Donald Trump addresses the Israeli parliament

Trump declares peace - but reality is not that simple

Israel's parliament erupted with roaring ovations for Donald Trump and his Gaza peace deal. RTÉ's Deputy Foreign Editor Edmund Heaphy, who is in Tel Aviv, looks at the validity of the US President's claim that peace has been achieved.

Analysis and Comment • 14 Oct 25

Crowds and vehicles fill a coastal road as displaced Palestinians travel north in the Gaza Strip

Can Trump focus long enough to enforce end to Gaza war?

Donald Trump has declared an end to the war in Gaza. The question is whether he can stay focused long enough to enforce it, writes our Deputy Foreign Editor in Tel Aviv.

Middle East • 13 Oct 25

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 03: Survivor Chauntae Davies (R) embraces survivor Anouska De Georgiou during a news conference with alleged victims of disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein outside the U.S. Capitol on September 03, 2025 in Was

Epstein survivors call for release of files and records

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have urged US lawmakers to back a bill that would force the release of records on the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.

US • 03 Sep 25