by RuthDE | Jun 4, 2026 | 2026, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
I made a brief visit back to Belfast last week with the Free Speech Union, whose HQ staff were introducing themselves to the regions. Published: 4 June 2026 I’m a member of their Northern Ireland Advisory Board: though I was born and brought up in Dublin and have...
by RuthDE | Dec 18, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, December, Journalism
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant I’ve been hearing outside my front door in central London for more than two years. Published: 18 December 2025 Globalise the intifada” is another. Or there’s “Hey hey, ho ho, Zionism has got to go”. Many...
by RuthDE | Jun 6, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
I was at a party in London on Tuesday where Israel and Ireland came up in conversation several times. There was curiosity about why the Irish appeared to loathe Jews. Published: 5 June 2025 What beats me, said one, who knows the Republic well, is how my friends in...
by RuthDE | Aug 19, 2020 | 2020, August, Journalism, The Spectator
Published: 17 August 2020 I have been so unremitting and harsh a critic of the IRA and Sinn Fein since the early 1990s, that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness tried hard to have me silenced. Sinn Fein still try to shut me up with the help of libel lawyers, and an army...
