by RuthDE | Apr 2, 2024 | 2024, April, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
What a week it has been! The most urgent question is how to steady the political ship after disconcerting revelations about the two biggest parties in Northern Ireland politics. Published: 2 April 2024 The shock of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson being charged with historical...
by RuthDE | Sep 7, 2023 | 2023, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
I saw a documentary the other day that brought the late Brian Keenan vividly back to the forefront of my memory. Published: 22 August 2023 He’s not talked about much these days, for — as the driving force for decades of the IRA —he’s now an embarrassment to the Sinn...
by RuthDE | Mar 7, 2020 | 2020, Journalism, March, Reaction
Published: 6 March 2020 If you thought the Corbyn Labour Party would be a disaster for the United Kingdom, spare a thought for the Republic of Ireland, of which I am a non-resident citizen, where Sinn Fein is on the rise. It is still believed by the security forces...
by RuthDE | Mar 2, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, March
I’m pleased to report yet another victory for the right to tell the truth about this party, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 March 2020 I didn’t know until last week that there had been three complaints to the Independent Press Standards...
by RuthDE | Feb 18, 2019 | 2019, February, Journalism, Sunday Independent
An outbreak of sanity over statues runs into Sinn Fein’s tunnel-vision problem, writes Ruth Dudley EdwardsPublished: 17 February 2019’I want to build a Belfast, which is a City for All,” wrote SDLP Councillor Tim Attwood in a recent letter to a...
by RuthDE | Feb 23, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Gerry Adams has left his chosen successor a horrendous collection of problems, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: Sunday 11 February 2018 In normal political parties almost everyone wants to be leader. But how many senior people in Sinn Fein truly envy Mary Lou...
