IRELAND — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited his grandparents’ home village of Aughagower in western Ireland on Sunday, meeting distant cousins, attending mass, and planting a tree at the family grave as part of a trip that precedes this week’s G7 summit in France. Carney traced his roots to Robert Carney and Nora Moran, who emigrated to Canada in 1925; his father later became a University of Alberta professor.
Speaking in Dublin during the visit, Carney warned that the post‑Cold War rules-based order is fracturing and called for closer cooperation between like-minded countries. He urged Canada, Ireland and European partners to form “a dense web of connections” and ad hoc coalitions to navigate what he described as a global “rupture,” not a gradual transition.
Carney told students at Trinity College Dublin that such partnerships could make the transatlantic community “pivotal, powerful, and purposeful, a force for good.” Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, whose government assumes the EU Council presidency on July 1, said Dublin will work to strengthen the EU‑Canada relationship and “put flesh on the bone” of enhanced cooperation.