Published: 19 April 2019 Lyra was killed yesterday in Londonderry whilst covering riots in Creggan She had previously investigated the Ulster Unionist MP Robert Bradford The 29-year-old was only eight-years-old when the Troubles came to an end Age, religion,...
Published: 15 April 2019 Last week I was at a brilliant and shocking international conference in London called Invisible Victims: Persecuted Believers And Western Governments. Much of the discussion was about the persecution of Christians – a deeply...
We badly need all the opportunities available in the Commonwealth, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 14 April 2019 Adrian O’Neill, Irish ambassador to the UK, had a letter in The Spectator last week complaining about a “snide and hostile” article...
Published: 8 April 2019 In A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA In The Republic of Ireland, 1969-1980, Gearoid O Faolean provides telling stories about the island-wide sympathy for physical force nationalism that was evident from the beginning of the Troubles. People...
Many lodge members already attend funerals and weddings in Roman Catholic churches, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 April 2019 Last week the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland at last got round to lifting the ban on its members entering Roman Catholic churches....
When such a passionate campaigner as Trevor Ringland gives up hope, it augurs badly, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 March 2019 Trevor Ringland wrote on Saturday: “Just after the last Northern Ireland assembly elections I challenged a senior Sinn Fein...
When it comes to the heritage of Ireland, republicans don’t have a monopoly, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 18 March 2019 On Saturday, after spending the day in Cookstown with the good folks of the Traditional Ulster Voice party discussing, among other...
Published: 14 March 2019Most law-abiding people in Northern Ireland believe that anyone who committed a crime should be brought to justice – and that the terrible events of Bloody Sunday were inexcusable. What is causing enormous distress is the completely...
Its leadership will not cave in and accept a bad deal Published: 12 March 2019 Cricket has nothing on politics when it comes to being a funny old game. Who could have thought that Nigel Dodds, MP for Belfast North, could – for at least one bright shining moment...
Gerry Adams will not appreciate Hollywood’s plan to tell the story of tragic widow, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 March 2019 One of my abiding hopes, and I am an optimist, is that Nemesis will yet catch up with Gerry Adams, that poster boy for Teflon....
