by RuthDE | Apr 1, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Many lodge members already attend funerals and weddings in Roman Catholic churches, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 April 2019 Last week the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland at last got round to lifting the ban on its members entering Roman Catholic churches.... 
by RuthDE | Mar 12, 2019 | 2019, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Its leadership will not cave in and accept a bad deal Published: 12 March 2019 Cricket has nothing on politics when it comes to being a funny old game. Who could have thought that Nigel Dodds, MP for Belfast North, could – for at least one bright shining moment... 
by RuthDE | Feb 11, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
The Government has capitulated to a distorted view of the Good Friday Agreement, argues Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 February 2019 With Lord (David) Trimble as the leading claimant, along with, so far, Lord (Paul) Bew, UUP councillor Jeff Dudgeon and me (under... 
by RuthDE | Feb 4, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Being consistent and unbending on backstop can wrestle concessions from EU, argues Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 February 2019 I was lamenting on Saturday, as I so often do these days, the complete uselessness of the current British Government in its negotiations... 
by RuthDE | Oct 3, 2018 | 2018, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
In the latest essay in our series, RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS writes that the NIO has come up with is a Sinn Fein wish list on legacy, but it is not too late to fight back Published: 2 October 2018 In four decades of following events in Northern Ireland closely, I’ve seen... 
by RuthDE | Sep 17, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
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... 
by RuthDE | Aug 29, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Twenty years after the bomb which killed 31 people, their relatives continue to fight on for the £1.6m in damages, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 August 2018 This Wednesday, August 15, 20 years after the terrible Omagh bomb, I’ll be at St... 
by RuthDE | May 15, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Slavish towards Brussels and meddlesome up north amounts to a bad combination, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 14 May 2018 The DUP’s Sammy Wilson got cross last week about Leo Varadkar’s revelation that the Irish government had proposed “a joint... 
by RuthDE | Mar 26, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Memorial service saw an extraordinary cast of characters honour a good and brave man, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 March 2018 ‘If we can’t forgive Sean O’Callaghan, who can we forgive?” was asked by a born-again Christian last... 
by RuthDE | Mar 26, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
It doesn’t really fit the republican narrative, says Ruth Dudley Edwards, but Sean O’Callaghan was greatly loved Published: 24 March 2018 The first song from the choir last Wednesday at the “Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving” for... 
