For the sake of Ireland, Naomi Long needs to avoid being entrapped by Sinn Fein, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 17 June 2019 After the Northern Ireland local elections last month, Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris cast a critical eye at the...
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...
With no Assembly, City Hall largest democratic forum here, and it’s not easy to watch, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 14 January 2019 Last week I watched about an hour of the Belfast City Council webcast, which at various times made me laugh, fume, plunged...
The two big parties are conspiring to share financial spoils for electoral reasons, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 28 May 2018 When the DUP and Sinn Fein achieved electoral dominance and the late Chuckle Brothers – Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley...
