Gerry Kelly’s solicitors have served me with a libel writ. Published: 21 June 2022 For legal reasons, I can’t yet say publicly what he’s upset about except that I think it’s ridiculous and I’m standing by what I wrote because I believe it is true. I did the same when,...
Being President Higgins means never having to say you are sorry. Published: 21 June 2022 Nothing seems to shake this life-long Marxist’s remarkable and unjustified self-belief. He’s just dropped two enormous clangers — but he won’t admit it. He has plenty of form, of...
For those of us who are not fans of Gerry Adams, there was some interesting news this month on the libel front, when he had a rare legal setback. Published: 29 March 2022 Presumably with a view to preserving his reputation of a man of peace, he is suing the BBC for...
I am now even more proud of being a columnist for this honourable newspaper, which revealed last week how and why it had successfully defended itself against an unjustified libel case. Published: 22 March 2022 “We were determined to fight this case,” wrote editor Ben...
Last Wednesday was the second anniversary of the murder of my friend Lyra McKee, shot dead by a member of the New IRA who had been targeting police. Published: 6 April 2021 The alleged murderer is back in Derry and there is insufficient evidence to charge him. Friday...
Shouldn’t Sinn Fein’s poster boy echo Nigel Dodds by condemning all terrorist murders, asks Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 30 September 2019 I’d love to believe that Sinn Fein are genuine about reconciliation, but they don’t half make it...
Gerry Adams didn’t understand the south, but Mary Lou McDonald is even worse about the North, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 24 February 2019 I was caught unawares last Tuesday on BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan morning show by Mary Lou...
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...
Demise of NI Memorial Fund due to its exclusion of perpetrators a sad indictment, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 22 October 2018 An extraordinary succession of newspaper articles reveal starkly how in this century successive governments – British and...
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...
