Never underestimate how much Ireland’s past can be used to endanger the present, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 24 December 2018 There was a bizarre sequence of events last week at a bungalow near Strokestown in Roscommon that has got the Republic in a...
Revealed: the fantasy reality show line-up of those who got under my skin in 2018. By Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 31 December 2018 Annually, after wide consultation, I provide a list of people I think Northern Ireland would be better off without. Since the object...
To get 2019 off to a good start we need to expel some of the worst sinners of 2018, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published 30 December 2018 It’s time for my annual cathartic purge of people who should be removed from the country. And what better place to start...
Leavers and Remainers don’t agree about much, but most would like the PM to go, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 17 December 2018 Matthew Parris on Saturday in his latest despairing Times column about Theresa May asked: “At what point does tenacity...
I may be known for my attacks on Sinn Fein, but I hold no bias on subject of paramilitarism, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 10 December 2018 A tweet last week after I’d had an altercation with James Wilson of the Loyalist Communities Council said:...
Talking to the spokesmen for paramilitaries gives them a status they don’t deserve, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 3 December 2018 I see loyalist ex-paramilitaries are unhappy with Mrs May’s deal. We are told by the chairman of the Loyalist...
When I put myself in Mary Lou McDonald’s shoes, I can almost feel some sympathy for herPublished: 2 December 2018Well, goodness me, poor Mary Lou McDonald continues to have a really rough time.Even the Taoiseach – who up to now appeared to be in blissful...
Martin McGuinness’ brother latest recruit to growing anti-abortion movement, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 26 November 2018 One of the most famous quotes attributed to the Dublin writer and wit Brendan Behan is that the first item on the agenda of any...
Defections, bad company, shocking manners and evading the truth make for a bad week, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 November 2019 Bearing in mind that Mary Lou McDonald persistently denies that her party’s haemorrhaging of elected representatives is...
Free speech is no excuse for being abusive to someone of a differing viewpoint, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 19 November 2018 The neighbours are having an almighty row,” wrote Gene Kerrigan in yesterday’s Sunday Independent. “Screaming,...
