by RuthDE | May 15, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
When international news seems so overwhelming as to be beyond understanding, local news can bring us back to earth. Published: 15 May 2025 Donald Trump may be appearing to stride the world like a colossus, but he is just a man. Leaders are mortal: they rise and fall....
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 16, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November
In the week in which Austin Currie died, two members of the SDLP — the party he co-founded — made comments about the RUC that would, I believe, have shocked that anti-sectarian. Published: 16 November 2021 As his friend the UUP’s Lord (Ken) Maginnis said of him,...
by RuthDE | Sep 14, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, September
Woke generation are destroying everything that we value Published: 14 September 2020 I got completely stuck over the last couple of years, as I tried to write my latest crime novel, Death of a Snowflake, which, as you might guess, is about the lunacies of identity...
by RuthDE | May 21, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Sinn Fein’s mendacious rewriting of history now sees its members recast as civil rights heroes Published: Sunday 20 May 2018 Of course I know that the bloodstained record it defends, and the lies, corruption and destructiveness of the contemporary Irish...
by RuthDE | Apr 11, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
O’Neill’s attack on violence of dissidents just lot of hot air as long as she still eulogises IRA Published: 9 April 2018 We’re all supposed to be thrilled that Michelle O’Neill said those who rioted in Londonderry on Easter Monday should be...
