by RuthDE | Jan 14, 2019 | 2019, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Sinn Fein’s refusal to allow its representatives to vote with their consciences may prove very costly, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 January 2019 ‘How many Cork people does it take to found a movement to break the political cartel?”... 
by RuthDE | Dec 4, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
When I put myself in Mary Lou McDonald’s shoes, I can almost feel some sympathy for herPublished: 2 December 2018Well, goodness me, poor Mary Lou McDonald continues to have a really rough time.Even the Taoiseach – who up to now appeared to be in blissful... 
by RuthDE | Nov 5, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
The disastrous Sinn Fein electoral performance has seriously weakened Mary Lou McDonald, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 November 2018 So who really runs Sinn Fein? The same people as always, mostly. Despite what seem to be Mary Lou McDonald’s occasional... 
by RuthDE | Oct 29, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Party puppeteers must be seething Sinn Fein blew €200k on such pathetic campaign, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 29 October 2018 If Mary Lou McDonald was the leader of a normal political party, after the disastrous performance of Liadh Ni Riada in the Irish... 
by RuthDE | Oct 10, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
As republicans dissemble in order to cover up their murderous past, decent people know truth, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 8 October 2018 Another week in Sinn Fein’s historical rewriting project brought us a major contribution from Gerry Kelly, one of... 
by RuthDE | Oct 1, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Enemies of police from north and south still spread their lies and hate, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 October 2018 The hatred of police is still alive and well in the psyche of extreme Irish republicans and it still contaminates wider public attitudes.... 
by RuthDE | Sep 24, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Sinn Fein doesn’t know what to do about Mairia Cahill, who has been proved to have been telling the truth and refuses to go away, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 23 September 2018 The late Siobhan O’Hanlon, for many years Gerry Adams’s personal... 
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, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Jeremy Corbyn is trying but failing to wriggle his way out of accusations of anti-semitism, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 3 September 2018 I was having a look at Irish historical figures’ attitudes to Jews, for anti-semitism in these islands is much on my... 
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...
