Their sick festive message in the city where my lovely friend was murdered shows how unapologetic they are, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 29 November 2019 Saoradh are getting into the festive spirit. Towards the end of a year in which the New IRA, which they...
Considering brain is not fully developed until 25, lowering age of suffrage is madness, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 November 2019 Occasionally I’m asked to comment on radio or in person on the demand to give 16-year-olds the vote. Almost inevitably...
We should stand up to the haters and extol the fine men and women of the force, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 18 November 2019 The RUC have been portrayed as “villains-in-chief from central casting”, said Mick Fealty. “The singular exception...
The RUC are consistently betrayed, but they have much to be proud of, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 November 2019 Last week I caught up on BBC iPlayer with Cops On The Frontline, directed by Dubliner Gerry Gregg, one of a handful of citizens of the Republic...
New Act of Union needed that guarantees rights and autonomy of each UK region, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 November 2019 I’m back from Indianapolis, where I was (excuse the boast) ‘international guest of honor’ at Magna Cum Murder, a...
Tribal politics at very heart of scandal over botched green energy scheme, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 28 October 2019 In the last few days travelling in the American Midwest, my constant companion was Sam McBride’s riveting Burned: The Inside Story Of...
The late Brian Kennaway, Michael Phelan and Ian Wilson did so much for reconciliation, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 October 2019 I feel keenly the loss of three fine Orangemen. Michael Phelan and Brian Kennaway, who both became close friends, and Ian Wilson,...
Published: 19 October 2019 “Sod the United Kingdom. Great Britain is fine. Leave Northern Ireland to Ireland.” This tweet was forwarded to me by a London-based, Conservative and staunchly Northern Irish Unionist friend as I began writing this. It came, he said from...
Published: 19 October 2019 Having begun as a slightly reluctant Leaver, I have become very hardline over the last three years in reaction to the undermining by Establishment Remainers of attempts to implement the will of the people of the United Kingdom by getting out...
Published: 18 October 2019 Before the 2016 referendum I, like so many others, dithered about how to vote, not least because I was concerned about how Brexit could affect the Republic of Ireland, of which I am a citizen. I was born and brought up in Dublin, but I’ve...
