by RuthDE | Feb 20, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
I try to avoid thinking about Gerry Adams. I have a cheerful disposition that I don’t wish to sour, but sometimes he’s hard to avoid. Published: 20 February 2024 I’ve met many IRA supporters who shared his politics, but none repelled me in the way he’s been doing for...
by RuthDE | Oct 20, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, October
Like so many others, I have been upset about Sir David Amess. Published: 19 October 2021 I am hoping that the murder of this thoroughly decent human being will have the unintended consequence of shaming those who routinely demonise politicians, especially Tories. It...
by RuthDE | Sep 21, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
Before I get on to two subjects with which I hope to cheer up at least some of my readers, just a few words about something else. Published: 21 September 2021 The media’s seemed to me to show extraordinary lack of compassion about the unexpected death of the prime...
by RuthDE | Jun 23, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, June
Jean Kennedy Smith was Irish republicanism’s ambassador to the US, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 22 June 2020 Regretting the death of Jean Kennedy Smith, US Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 for five years, who died last Wednesday in Manhattan aged 92,...
