So what have our friends in Sinn Fein (as Jeremy Corbyn would call them) been up to recently? Published: 21 November 2023 Well, amongst other unpleasant activities, over the past few years, they’ve been stepping up their strategy of trying to silence critics north...
Hats off to the admirable Máiria Cahill, with whom I became friends a decade ago. Her Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin is a best-seller. Published: 10 October 2023 The media in these two islands have been alive with her eloquent voice in print and...
Sinn Féin so successfully parades lies as truths that they are often believed unquestionably by people with no particular agenda. Published: 18 July 2023 It helps that unionists are so terrible at public relations. Events at Drumcree 25 years ago are being revisited,...
At last, something in the legal world to make champions of law-and-order and justice cheer. Published: 11 July 2023 Despite the IRA losing the military battle against the security forces, brilliant apologists have been winners at lawfare. Underpinned by legal aid,...
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...
An old friend from Omagh, an ex-member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary called me to tell me of the attempted police killing. Published: 23 February 2023 An old friend from Omagh, an ex-member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) — the predecessor of the Police...
Having just read Malachi O’Doherty’s excellent “Can Ireland Be One?’’ I’ve now finished another unputdownable book Sinn Fein will hate. Published: 11 October 2022 The party didn’t make it easy for Shane Ross — a journalist and Independent TD who was a minister...
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...
My late friend David Trimble saved unionists from having joint authority imposed on them because he fought nationalism, constitutional and violent, intelligently and imaginatively — despite the attacks from his own side. Published: 30 August 2022 He also benefited...
RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS pays tribute to a humble colossus of peace Published: 26 July 2022 My long and close friendship with David Trimble began in 1985 at yet another conference lamenting the sorry state of Northern Ireland. A friend and I decided to alleviate the...
