by RuthDE | May 10, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
I couldn’t stand Piers Morgan until he lost his job on Good Morning Britain for telling the truth about Meghan Markle Published: 10 May 2022 Then I overlooked his crassness, praised his moral courage and wished him well in his new job with Talk TV. But the honeymoon...
by RuthDE | May 4, 2022 | 2022, Daily Telegraph, Journalism, May
Over-excited nationalists will say otherwise, but whatever happens on Thursday, the country will not unite in our lifetime Published: 3 May 2020 If the pollsters have got it right, by the weekend, although unionists will almost certainly have scored more votes than...
by RuthDE | Oct 5, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, October
As much as any Pope, President Michael D Higgins believes himself infallible. Published: 4 October 2021 Yet his recent behaviour has had an utterly toxic effect on relationships between nationalists and unionists in this centenary year. It has forced hidden hatreds...
by RuthDE | Jul 6, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, July
With some of the usual suspects still boring on about a border poll, I want to go back to basics. Published: 6 July 2021 I apologise to those who have heard this story before, but I think it one of the most telling comments about Irish aspirations to unity I’ve ever...
by RuthDE | Apr 28, 2021 | 2021, April, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
First, the bad news, though you know it already. Published: 27 April 2021 Until the Sinn Féin leopard changes its spots there’s no hope of having a stable government in Northern Ireland working for all its people. The Province is stuck for now with a disruptive...
by RuthDE | Feb 16, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
The sun is shining, the weather forecast is encouraging, the target of vaccinating the 15 million most vulnerable people in the United Kingdom by February 15 was met ahead of time, and despite the mean-spirited way in which Brussels is persecuting Northern Ireland, I...
by RuthDE | Jan 6, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, January, Journalism
Sinn Fein’s IRA masters are out of touch if they think push for a border poll will succeed, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 6 January 2020 Southern nationalism has moved on. Except for Sinn Fein of course, and the maverick Fianna Fail Senator Mark Daly...
by RuthDE | Aug 29, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
She may be president of Sinn Fein, but U-turn over border poll shows she has to follow orders from Belfast, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 6 August 2018 What an unsettling week for Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald. And she was riding so high at home and...
by RuthDE | Jun 19, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Deep divisions remain between North and South – and within the North itself Published: 17 June 2018 As I was ruminating on the implications of Leo Varadkar allegedly telling Fine Gael TDs that “the plates are shifting in Irish politics”, I...
