The President uses his Hibernian heritage to burnish his image, but seemingly knows little about Ireland or the Church’s teachings Published: 14 March 2023 President Joe Biden’s self-delusion seems to be boundless. When he looks in the mirror, he apparently sees an...
Bungling Secretary of State should have known Bill would be hijacked, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 15 July 2019 The only thing you can say for Karen Bradley as Secretary of State is that she’s managed to unite Northern Ireland’s political parties....
Critics of the church are becoming as oppressive as the institution they attack, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 26 August 2018 ‘It was a censorious, bleak, closed-minded, unforgiving society of squinting windows and banned books and hellfire sermons....
Referendum to widen franchise on poll for head of state is new republican battleground, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 August 2018 Referendums, as we know all too well since the battles in the UK over Brexit and in the Irish Republic over same-sex marriage...
North and south, self-styled progressives have turned into hectoring, secular bullies, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 June 2018 The noun “progressive” used to mean someone who advocated social reform. These days, in both jurisdictions on the...
Published: 3 June 2018 Last Thursday, Dr Colum McCaffrey who taught Political Communication for 20 years in UCD, blogged about media partiality during the referendum campaign for Mary Lou McDonald as a Yes spokesperson. “Over the past few weeks journalists and...
Published: 11 May 2018 I’m with Julie Bindel in fighting disgusting practices such as Female Genital Mutilation and in standing up to the trans mob, but I part company with her over the abortion debate in Ireland, about which she is so impatient. I abandoned...
