by RuthDE | May 1, 2024 | 2024, Daily Telegraph, Journalism, May
On one level, the migrant row is a mutually-helpful farce. But has something changed in UK-Irish ties? Published: 1 May 2024 Surveying the row over immigration policy in Ireland and the UK, I’m reminded of the Sham Fight, an annual event in Northern Ireland, in the...
by RuthDE | Jan 25, 2019 | 2019, Daily Telegraph, January, Journalism
Published: 24 January 2019 “If you’d like to push me and speculate on what might happen in a no-deal scenario in Ireland, I think it’s pretty obvious – you will have a hard border”, said Margaritis Schinas, the EU Chief Spokesperson on Tuesday,...
by RuthDE | Oct 9, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
It’s an unexciting field in the race for the presidency, but that’s no reason to vote for the horse we know best, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 October 2018 Try as I might, I can’t yet find a candidate to cheer for in the presidential race....
by RuthDE | Sep 24, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
SF got off lightly after its pathetic response to Ombudsman’s report on abuse probe, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 24 September 2018 There was plenty of bile on Twitter the day after the Spotlight interview with Mairia Cahill about the Police...
by RuthDE | Aug 29, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Referendum to widen franchise on poll for head of state is new republican battleground, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 August 2018 Referendums, as we know all too well since the battles in the UK over Brexit and in the Irish Republic over same-sex marriage...
by RuthDE | Aug 29, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Foster and Robinson have made important speeches recently which we need to discuss, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 12 August 2018 I’ve been reading and hearing a lot recently about unionist attitudes to the possibility of losing a border poll on a united...
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 | May 4, 2018 | 2018, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Have my Irish compatriots forgotten how the EU once treated Greece? Published: 30 April 2018 Another week, another bromance, this time between Michel Barnier, the EU’s Brexit negotiator, and the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar. The cynical Brussels game of suckering...
by RuthDE | Feb 23, 2018 | 2018, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 15 February 2018 It has been another groundhog week in Northern Ireland, with British and Irish politicians pleading for compromise in pursuit of renewed power sharing and the preservation of peace, and leaks to the media from both nationalists and...
