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.

Iranians hold anti-America banners outside the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 3, 2016, during a demonstration marking the anniversary of its storming by student protesters that triggered a hostage crisis in 1979.
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Why lessons from a CIA coup in Iran should haunt Trump

The story of modern Iran begins with a CIA coup in 1953 - and its lessons should haunt Donald Trump, writes Deputy Foreign Editor Edmund Heaphy.

Analysis and Comment • 09 Mar

Smoke rises after Iran launched a missile attack targeting the headquarters of the US Navyâs Fifth Fleet in Manama

US and Israel clear their goal is Iranian regime change

The US and Israel have made clear their goal is Iranian regime change - and Iran will make the whole region pay for it, writes our Deputy Foreign Editor Edmund Heaphy.

Analysis and Comment • 04 Mar

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is pictured in London in September

Latest Epstein files bring different trouble for Andrew

Files left behind by the late Jeffrey Epstein reveal a hidden world of powerful men and some women who appear to have operated as though the rules simply did not apply to them, writes Edmund Heaphy.

Analysis and Comment • 19 Feb

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 26: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) talks with Britain's ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador's residence on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. British Prime Minis

Starmer's predictable scandal over Mandelson appointment

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is discovering that his most trusted adviser, a Corkman, may have led him into a scandal from which there is no escape, writes Edmund Heaphy.

Analysis and Comment • 07 Feb

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 • 03 Mar

'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