by RuthDE | Aug 29, 2024 | 2024, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
There are people who get on one’s nerves for no particularly good reason. They don’t murder people, torture kittens or invade Ukraine. They just irritate. Published: 29 August 2024 My father was an historian preoccupied with the importance of keeping an open mind and...
by RuthDE | Oct 24, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, October
On Sunday I went with two other gentiles to a rally in Trafalgar Square, London, in support of Israel. I found it almost unbearable to listen to close relatives of some of those murdered or kidnapped, as it has been when I’ve heard at first hand the stories of...
by RuthDE | Jun 27, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
I try to be fair, even to such irritating people as Michael D Higgins, Ireland’s president since 2011. Published: 27 June 2023 But his self-importance, silliness, vanity and sanctimony grate on me, as well as his arrogance and self-aggrandisement in trampling on the...
by RuthDE | Sep 14, 2022 | 2022, Daily Telegraph, Journalism, September
Apart from a few extreme Republican trolls, Queen Elizabeth is being mourned in Ireland, north and south Published: 9 September 2022 Apart from a few extreme Republican trolls shouting on social media about colonial wrongs, Queen Elizabeth is being mourned in Ireland,...
by RuthDE | Mar 15, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, March
Some unintended consequences of Vladimir Putin’s megalomaniacal and merciless attack on the people of Ukraine that are appearing in Ireland now are embarrassing Sinn Fein. Published: 15 March 2022 Owing to having been brought up and educated in Dublin, and then spent...
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....
