Petition highlighting anti-Protestant bias at Queen’s should be supported, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 8 March 2020 I’m not much given to signing petitions, but I’ve signed one asking Queen’s University Belfast and the Queen’s...
Published: 6 March 2020 If you thought the Corbyn Labour Party would be a disaster for the United Kingdom, spare a thought for the Republic of Ireland, of which I am a non-resident citizen, where Sinn Fein is on the rise. It is still believed by the security forces...
I’m pleased to report yet another victory for the right to tell the truth about this party, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 March 2020 I didn’t know until last week that there had been three complaints to the Independent Press Standards...
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....
Sinn Fein/IRA might have stopped killing, but their destructiveness means they’re still a cancer on our islandPublished: 10 March 2019This column is packing its bags, so I thought I’d do a bit of a trip down memory lane.Just over 25 years ago, in January...
Probe into cash-for-ash highlights how insidious DUP-Sinn Fein carve-up became, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 March 2019 The last couple of weeks brought us another couple of episodes in the soap opera that is the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), aka...