When she reflects on the past 25 years, Ruth Dudley Edwards is haunted by memories of her two close friends, David Trimble and Lyra McKee, two gifted but very different people who bookend that period Published: 18 April 2023 For the last few weeks I’ve been...
My late friend David Trimble saved unionists from having joint authority imposed on them because he fought nationalism, constitutional and violent, intelligently and imaginatively — despite the attacks from his own side. Published: 30 August 2022 He also benefited...
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...
It takes bravery to put your head above the parapet and challenge convention, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 July 2019 I went last week to the award of the Contrarian Prize in London. The dictionary definition of a contrarian is “a person who opposes or...
It’s an unexciting field in the race for the presidency, but that’s no reason to vote for the horse we know best, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 October 2018 Try as I might, I can’t yet find a candidate to cheer for in the presidential race....
Twenty years after the bomb which killed 31 people, their relatives continue to fight on for the £1.6m in damages, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 August 2018 This Wednesday, August 15, 20 years after the terrible Omagh bomb, I’ll be at St...
Varadkar’s Orange Order visit cold comfort if he forms ties with terror apologists, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 June 2018 The headline in Irish Republican News was ‘A rumoured alliance between Sinn Fein and Fine Gael appears closer this week after...
Slavish towards Brussels and meddlesome up north amounts to a bad combination, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 14 May 2018 The DUP’s Sammy Wilson got cross last week about Leo Varadkar’s revelation that the Irish government had proposed “a joint...
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...
Terrorists don’t deserve concessions, it’s their innocent victims who deserve priority, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 May 2018 A threesome from our past was pictured last week in France: Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern and Jonathan Powell, once Tony...
