by RuthDE | Oct 3, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, October
I’ll be writing another time about my friend Maria Cahill’s brilliant and chilling best seller, Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin. Published: 3 October 2023 The title comes from W B Yeats’s “The Second Coming”, a poem written at a time of...
by RuthDE | Sep 26, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
When it comes to sexual scandal, little is new. Published: 26 September 2023 Broadly, a lot of men try it on, vulnerable women often confuse lust with love, and uninterested women develop resistance strategies. The startling revelations about how senior media people...
by RuthDE | Mar 29, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, March
For those of us who are not fans of Gerry Adams, there was some interesting news this month on the libel front, when he had a rare legal setback. Published: 29 March 2022 Presumably with a view to preserving his reputation of a man of peace, he is suing the BBC for...
by RuthDE | Nov 3, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November
Stephen Nolan and his producer, David Thompson — who offend the Northern Ireland elite because they broadcast the views of people they find deplorable — are being recognised as heroes in political and media circles across the Irish Sea. Published: 2 November 2021 This...
by RuthDE | Jun 1, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, May
We must open our minds and have more empathy with those we do not agree with Published: 31 May 2020 I care about free speech and a free Press, without which corruption and injustice flourish, but at times there is a heavy price to be paid. After some weeks of watching...
by RuthDE | Apr 23, 2019 | 2019, April, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 22 April 2019 I was brought up a Roman Catholic but I ceased to be a believer a very long time ago. Yet I would describe myself as a Christian atheist, for of all the religions I know about, it is Christianity I most admire and feel at home with. There is...
