Ruadhán Mac Cormaic has been appointed Editor of The Irish Times, the company has announced.
He will take up his post next week on October 26th, succeeding Waterford's Paul O’Neill in the role. As Editor, Mac Cormaic will therefore join the board of The Irish Times Group.
Mac Cormaic has been an Assistant Editor since 2017. He previously served as Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Legal Affairs Correspondent, Paris Correspondent and Migration Correspondent. He was the recipient of the Douglas Gageby Irish Times fellowship for young journalists in 2007.
Originally from Dublin, Mac Cormaic is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Strasbourg and Cambridge University and is well known as the author of The Supreme Court (Penguin Ireland, 2016), while he has also won numerous awards for his journalism.
Departing editor Paul O'Neill said that after 40 years with what is now The Irish Times Group, more than five years of it as editor of The Irish Times and a further eight years as deputy editor, he believed the time was right to depart.
Aged 57, Mr O’Neill is originally from Waterford. He had previously worked for the Cork Examiner and the Waterford News & Star, both now part of The Irish Times Group as is WLR FM.
He joined The Irish Times in 1989 as London Correspondent and later worked as a news reporter, Crime Correspondent, Deputy News Editor and Finance Editor.
