by RuthDE | Mar 18, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
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... 
by RuthDE | Mar 14, 2019 | 2019, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
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... 
by RuthDE | Mar 12, 2019 | 2019, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
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... 
by RuthDE | Mar 11, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
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.... 
by RuthDE | Mar 11, 2019 | 2019, Journalism, Sunday Independent
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... 
by RuthDE | Mar 7, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
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... 
by RuthDE | Feb 25, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
With quiet courage, it defended people’s right to go about their daily business, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 February 2019 I was a guest speaker last Saturday week at a reunion in the Clogher Valley for ex-members of the Ulster Defence Regiment. It... 
by RuthDE | Feb 25, 2019 | 2019, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Gerry Adams didn’t understand the south, but Mary Lou McDonald is even worse about the North, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 24 February 2019 I was caught unawares last Tuesday on BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan morning show by Mary Lou... 
by RuthDE | Feb 18, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
A new biography of the Labour leader makes for very worrying read, writes ‘politics anorak’ Ruth Dudley Edwards 18 February 2019 Being prone to insomnia, I keep on my Kindle a stock of really boring, sleep-inducing books. Recently I read two biographies of... 
by RuthDE | Feb 18, 2019 | 2019, Journalism, Sunday Independent
An outbreak of sanity over statues runs into Sinn Fein’s tunnel-vision problem, writes Ruth Dudley EdwardsPublished: 17 February 2019’I want to build a Belfast, which is a City for All,” wrote SDLP Councillor Tim Attwood in a recent letter to a...
