by RuthDE | Aug 25, 2026 | 2025, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
I paid a visit to the Felons Club the other week which proved even more dispiriting than my first in 1999. Published: 20 August 2026 t least that was exciting. At the time Sinn Fein – being theoretically peace loving – had begun to attract government and business...
by RuthDE | Mar 20, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, March
We don’t get enough laughs in life, particularly if we follow events in Northern Ireland, but I have enormously enjoyed at a distance the Saint Patrick’s Day events in Washington. Published: 20 March 2025 It takes me back to 2011, when the Felons Club...
by RuthDE | Mar 14, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, March
I’m unrepentant about saying last week that the Windsor Framework is as good as unionists can get. Published: 14 March 2023 As I tweeted after Jim Allister took issue with me, I have great admiration for his intellect and his integrity, but that doesn’t mean we have...
by RuthDE | Apr 27, 2020 | 2020, April, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Ex-party leader’s main resemblance to Patrick Pearse is economic illiteracy, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 April 2020 Gerry Adams hasn’t gone away, you know. My dear little friend Lyra McKee had a keen sense of fun, so she would have seen the...
by RuthDE | Apr 13, 2020 | 2020, April, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Why does the party slavishly urge obedience to the World Health Organisation, asks Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 April 2020 Among all the questions to ask Michelle O’Neill about Sinn Fein’s health policy concerns is her new-found enthusiasm for the...
by RuthDE | Jan 6, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, January, Journalism
Sinn Fein’s IRA masters are out of touch if they think push for a border poll will succeed, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 6 January 2020 Southern nationalism has moved on. Except for Sinn Fein of course, and the maverick Fianna Fail Senator Mark Daly...
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 | 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 | Sep 3, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
A festival with The Wolfe Tones top of the bill can only send one message to unionists, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 20 August 2018 If you book The Wolfe Tones, you’re licensing a group to sing rabble-rousing songs about how the IRA stood up for Mopes (most...
by RuthDE | Aug 29, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
She may be president of Sinn Fein, but U-turn over border poll shows she has to follow orders from Belfast, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 6 August 2018 What an unsettling week for Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald. And she was riding so high at home and...
