Every day I look at tweets from the Auschwitz Memorial site and from SEFF (the South East Fermanagh Foundation), and read the brief descriptions of lives cut short by murders linked to that day’s date. Published: 18 October 2022 I find this puts my own small worries...
Some unintended consequences of Vladimir Putin’s megalomaniacal and merciless attack on the people of Ukraine that are appearing in Ireland now are embarrassing Sinn Fein. Published: 15 March 2022 Owing to having been brought up and educated in Dublin, and then spent...
On Sunday, after I had read the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee statement, I thought “I wish unionists had the sense to learn from her how to modernise”. Published: 8 February 2022 What a brilliant politician is this unassuming woman of limited education who took on an...
I come from Dublin and live in London, but I love Northern Ireland and have been missing it and my friends here during lockdown Published: 7 October 2020 So I was glad to go to Belfast last week, even though it was for consultations with lawyers about yet another...
Published: 21 January 2020 My admiration for Matthew Parris has remained intact throughout the period of his severe attack of Brexit Derangement Syndrome. But, just when I was rejoicing that he seemed steadily to be returning to equilibrium, his article in Saturday’s...
IRA perpetrators blame their victims to attempt to silence their own consciences, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 19 January 2020 I want to talk about hate, which suddenly yet again went centre stage in Ireland when the Irish Minister for Justice Charlie...
Outburst of opposition to commemoration for RIC and Dublin Metropolitan Police own-goal, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 January 2020 January 6 was the 40th anniversary of the murder of three UDR men: Robert Smith, an 18-year-old Protestant, and two...
If Sinn Fein wins on the legacy proposals our government endorses, the law will become an accessory after the fact, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 16 September 2018 I’m rejoicing that the brave and dogged Mairia Cahill has been vindicated, that the PSNI...
The timing of the presidential visit is bad for both the Irish government and Sinn Fein, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 10 September 2018 My fellow columnist Fionola Meredith produced here on Friday an admirable and entertaining evisceration of the...
