by RuthDE | Jan 22, 2026 | 2026, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
One of the throw-away remarks at home that baffled me as child was ‘The Skibbereen Eagle has its eye on Russia’. Published: 22 January 2026 Eventually, some kind adult explained that this related to a threat in a West Cork village in 1898 from a new competitor to the...
by RuthDE | Jan 8, 2026 | 2026, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
We live in weird times, so I can quite understand why some people long to be governed by appeasers. I can hear the voice of a long dead relative repeating at times of domestic crisis, “The quiet way is the best.” Published: 8 January 2026 The problem with that...
by RuthDE | Feb 13, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
It’s rather soon for the governing party to be having a civil war, but here it is playing out in the press. And it’s getting very bloody. Published: 13 February 2025 The chief protagonists right now are both Labour peers: Maurice Glasman and Richard Hermer. Lord...
