by RuthDE | Jul 11, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, July
At last, something in the legal world to make champions of law-and-order and justice cheer. Published: 11 July 2023 Despite the IRA losing the military battle against the security forces, brilliant apologists have been winners at lawfare. Underpinned by legal aid,...
by RuthDE | Aug 9, 2022 | 2022, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
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...
by RuthDE | Aug 3, 2021 | 2021, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
It was down memory lane again for me last month about the 1998 Omagh bomb, first with a conversation at a London party with David Trimble and Peter Mandelson, and then with two surprising court judgements in Belfast and Dublin. Published: 3 August 2021 After the three...
by RuthDE | Aug 19, 2020 | 2020, August, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
People seem to forget how crucial the ex- UUP leader was in helping to end the violence, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 17 August 2020 Did anyone notice, in all the tributes to John Hume, how rarely David Trimble was mentioned? Had you known nothing about the...
