They lived only to make music but the IRA killed them anyway, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 16 September 2019 The 11 young men of the renowned Royal Marines Band Service who were massacred by the bomb planted at Deal Barracks on September 22, 1989 were not...
Published: 9 September 2019 Well, it’s a good thing the 93-year-old Queen Elizabeth is robust. When the media aren’t majoring on her son Andrew’s friendship with a now dead paedophile, they’re featuring endless stories about her daughter-in-law...
The Government’s job is to stand up for law and order and innocent victims, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 2 September 2019 Those of us Leavers who had despaired of seeing any backbone in the British Government’s dealings with the EU now have a bit of a...
McKee bravely shone a light on sectarian violence in Northern Ireland — then became one of its victims Published: 1 September 2019 Though I’ve known many people bereaved or injured during 25 years of covering Northern Ireland as a journalist, Lyra McKee is the only...
Brexiteers are one group who’ve been dismissed and given the silent treatment, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 26 August 2019 I was surprised on Saturday that the profoundly intolerant Irish Times had published an article by Maria Steen with the headline:...
Without Operation Banner, there could have been a full-scale civil war in Ireland, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: August 29, 2019 Former soldier John Hutchinson said at the Lisburn event on Saturday commemorating the 50th anniversary of British troops being...
Published: 12 August 2019 The news I bring from the West Cork History Festival in Skibbereen is that in the Republic thinking people have serious misgivings about a United Ireland. In a country that goes in for navel-gazing summer schools, this three-year-old event...
Published: 5 August 2019 He’s only been in the door five minutes and has hardly begun putting names to faces, yet already Julian Smith, the new Secretary of State, has had to order an internal review into a problem he must find preposterous – the...
Published: 19 July 2019 Like so many others, I’ve spent all too much time recently weighing up the qualities and deficiencies of Boris Johnson and the pros and cons of having him as Prime Minister. That involved reading innumerable articles asking who the real Boris...
If our new PM remains resolute, he may yet unravel the torturous Irish border conundrum Published: 25 July 2019 There are, as yet, precious few signs of either the Dublin establishment or Northern Irish nationalists sharing Prime Minister Johnson’s sunny optimism...
