When she reflects on the past 25 years, Ruth Dudley Edwards is haunted by memories of her two close friends, David Trimble and Lyra McKee, two gifted but very different people who bookend that period Published: 18 April 2023 For the last few weeks I’ve been...
I was delighted by the award of CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) to an old friend. Published: 3 January 2023 This is a very senior award, just one below a knighthood, which is given for those who have played “a conspicuous leading role in regional...
I’m just back from seeing friends in Minneapolis and participating in a crime writers’ convention in Indiana that I’ve been involved in for two decades — where I spoke about David Trimble, who was to have been International Guest of Honour. Published: 8...
My late friend David Trimble saved unionists from having joint authority imposed on them because he fought nationalism, constitutional and violent, intelligently and imaginatively — despite the attacks from his own side. Published: 30 August 2022 He also benefited...
Last month, at the funeral service for David Trimble — a friend I greatly admired and loved, seeing his widow Daphne — steadfastly, through many terrible times, his strength and stay — sitting alone as her children briefly left her to carry their father’s coffin...
RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS pays tribute to a humble colossus of peace Published: 26 July 2022 My long and close friendship with David Trimble began in 1985 at yet another conference lamenting the sorry state of Northern Ireland. A friend and I decided to alleviate the...
When even Jubilee edibles can’t be delivered, the integrity of the UK single market is clearly being undermined Published: 30 May 2022 hat is this Northern Ireland Protocol row all about?” is a question that causes despair to those of us who are supposed to have...
I’ve only been a declared unionist for a very short while and already I’m a Lundy. Published: 12 April 2022 Most recently this accusation has been levelled at me over a tweet I wrote the other day in response to the defaced poster of Doug Beattie showing him with a...
I know that what matters at the moment is whether the lunatic in his Moscow lair can be prevented from murdering vast numbers in his doomed mission to restore the Russian Empire that was abolished in 1917 and be brought down by his own egomania.Published: 1 March...
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...
