by RuthDE | Oct 16, 2025 | 2025, Daily Telegraph, Journalism, September
Catherine Connolly, the presidential candidate, is in tune with the dangerously woke youth of her country Published: 15 October 2025 In the words of Eoghan Harris, the legendary Irish political commentator, Ireland is going through “a period of mass, self-harming...
by RuthDE | Jun 20, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
Following the vote-counting process is always a serious sport in the Republic of Ireland. This year, local and EU parliamentary elections were held on Friday July 7. Published: 19 June 2024 I arrived in Dublin on the 8th and left on the 11th, by which time the local...
by RuthDE | Sep 6, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
At the weekend, I was in Dublin, where I was born and brought up, mostly seeing old friends. Published: 6 September 2022 When we got on to politics, there was the predictably gloomy view that there was no stopping the Shinners from getting into government. Some of my...
by RuthDE | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022, Daily Telegraph, Journalism, July
The country thought it could have its cake and eat it, by relying on the hated British for its defence Published: 1 July 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is posing Ireland – which is not a Nato member – with difficult choices. In its happy position of having next...
by RuthDE | Sep 29, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
The row over President Michael D. Higgins’s bizarre rejection of the invitation to the ecumenical church event in Armagh has generated oceans of comment in the media, but one of the most acute analyses I’ve seem was in an email. Published: 28 September 2021 Michael...
by RuthDE | Mar 7, 2020 | 2020, Journalism, March, Reaction
Published: 6 March 2020 If you thought the Corbyn Labour Party would be a disaster for the United Kingdom, spare a thought for the Republic of Ireland, of which I am a non-resident citizen, where Sinn Fein is on the rise. It is still believed by the security forces...
by RuthDE | Feb 6, 2020 | 2020, February, Journalism, Reaction
Published: 5 February 2020 It was a matter of pride in the United Kingdom that so many voters refused even to contemplate a Corbyn government because of the Labour leadership’s toleration of anti-Semitism and its sympathy with terrorists. However, it’s looking as if a...
by RuthDE | Nov 28, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Martin McGuinness’ brother latest recruit to growing anti-abortion movement, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 26 November 2018 One of the most famous quotes attributed to the Dublin writer and wit Brendan Behan is that the first item on the agenda of any...
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 | Feb 23, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Protestants need again to rescue Irish from those who use it only as a weapon, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published 19 February 2018 My favourite line in the coverage of last week’s talks farce was from Irish Times commentator Noel Whelan, a one-time Fianna Fail...
