Hats off to the admirable Máiria Cahill, with whom I became friends a decade ago. Her Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin is a best-seller. Published: 10 October 2023 The media in these two islands have been alive with her eloquent voice in print and...
I’ve been thinking and reading about Prince Philip since I heard the news of his death. Published: 13 April 2021 It surprised me how upset I was. As he had kept pointing out, he was old and it was his time to die. For Covid-related reasons, I was alone as I watched...
Published: 9 April 2021 Youths unleash fireworks in Belfast tonight I love Northern Ireland and most of its people, and find it heartbreaking to see the province in the news today not in commemoration of its centenary year but once again because of vicious communal...
Last Wednesday was the second anniversary of the murder of my friend Lyra McKee, shot dead by a member of the New IRA who had been targeting police. Published: 6 April 2021 The alleged murderer is back in Derry and there is insufficient evidence to charge him. Friday...
The Irish Republic has much to be ashamed about in its attitude to the hell the Provisional IRA unleashed on Northern Ireland, which has spread south in the modified form of gang warfare, corruption and the erosion of democracy. I’m constantly amazed at the staggering...
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...
The strategy behind the infamous Storey funeral was to show contempt to democracy and wind up unionists, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 6 July 2020 As if there was any doubt, the shameless behaviour of those organising and leading Bobby Storey’s funeral...
We should challenge false narrative peddled by Sinn Fein over late IRA man, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 29 June 2020 When it comes to the deaths of those associated with Sinn Fein and the IRA, I don’t adhere to the convention that one should postpone...