by RuthDE | May 28, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
Fintan O’Toole, the Irish Times’s prize columnist for many years, wrote a staggeringly mean-spirited assessment of Sir Anthony O’Reilly shortly after his death on May 18. Published: 28 May 2024 He opined that being told as a school child that he was illegitimate...
by RuthDE | Oct 15, 2021 | 2021, Daily Telegraph, Journalism, October
At home and abroad, their ignorant dislike for Brexit means they can only ever blindly take Brussels’ side Published: 14 October 2021 The injunction never to play chess with a pigeon is always applicable here,” wrote Kathy Sheridan, a long-standing columnist for...
by RuthDE | Oct 5, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, October
As much as any Pope, President Michael D Higgins believes himself infallible. Published: 4 October 2021 Yet his recent behaviour has had an utterly toxic effect on relationships between nationalists and unionists in this centenary year. It has forced hidden hatreds...
by RuthDE | Sep 21, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, September
UK’s critics guilty of double standards when it comes to Leavers Published: 21 September 2020 Many nationalists interpret the GFA to mean,” tweeted the commentator Owen Polley last week, “if a policy advances the cause of an all-Ireland state, it’s definitely,...
by RuthDE | May 11, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, May
It’s a travesty to say the UK is doing worse than any other European country, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 May 2020 At least the claim enthusiastically made by Sinn Fein and taken up by anti-British commentators in both islands, that the death rate...
by RuthDE | Jun 21, 2019 | 2019, Daily Telegraph, Journalism, June
Published: 21 June 2019 With charm, diplomacy and brains, there is no reason why he can’t secure concessions from Ireland Writing earlier this week, the Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole was in despair at the prospect of Boris Johnson becoming Tory leader. “Who...
by RuthDE | Feb 3, 2019 | 2019, February, Journalism, Reaction
Published: 1 February 2019I can’t resist joining the Reaction argument over Irish journalist Fintan O’Toole. Writing for this site earlier this week, Eilis O’Hanlon, my esteemed colleague on the Sunday Independent and the Belfast Telegraph, accused him of having...
