by RuthDE | Jan 14, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
With no Assembly, City Hall largest democratic forum here, and it’s not easy to watch, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 14 January 2019 Last week I watched about an hour of the Belfast City Council webcast, which at various times made me laugh, fume, plunged... 
by RuthDE | Jan 14, 2019 | 2019, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Sinn Fein’s refusal to allow its representatives to vote with their consciences may prove very costly, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 January 2019 ‘How many Cork people does it take to found a movement to break the political cartel?”... 
by RuthDE | Jan 7, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
The spaghetti alphabet of organisations seem to have one-track agenda, according to Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 January 2019 When did well-meaning people here concerned about everyone’s human rights appear to allow the organisations they supported to become... 
by RuthDE | Jan 2, 2019 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
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... 
by RuthDE | Dec 31, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
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... 
by RuthDE | Dec 31, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
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... 
by RuthDE | Dec 17, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
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... 
by RuthDE | Dec 10, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
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:... 
by RuthDE | Dec 4, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
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... 
by RuthDE | Dec 4, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
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...
