by RuthDE | Apr 17, 2025 | 2025, April, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
“Every generation”, said ex-taoiseach Leo Varadkar last week to an enthusiastic Irish-American audience in Philadelphia hosted by Northern Ireland-based Ireland’s Future, “has its great cause.” Published: 17 April 2025 There hasn’t been much in the press...
by RuthDE | Nov 15, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November
I admit to having been rather irritated by Queen’s professor Colin Harvey’s recent complaints about being under threat, since I think he has a tendency to take himself unduly seriously, to see criticism as abuse and to flinch from the hurly burly that goes with...
by RuthDE | Oct 5, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, October
I recommend to anyone with an open mind who is wondering about the constitutional future of Ireland, Malachi O’Doherty’s Can Ireland Be One?, which manages to be both serious and highly entertaining. Published: 4 October 2022 I read it over the weekend as Ireland’s...
by RuthDE | Aug 30, 2022 | 2022, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
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...
by RuthDE | Jan 11, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
My apologies to Professor Colin Harvey of Ireland’s Future, an organisation whose mission is ‘Paving the way to the reunification of the island’. Published: 11 January 2022 When just before the New Year I wrote my annual list of people I would like to send to a desert...
by RuthDE | Dec 14, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, December, Journalism
Having claimed for decades that the majority of the electorate in the Irish Republic just pay lip service to the idea of a united Ireland, I got a momentary shock the other day when I saw the Irish Times leading with ‘Large majority of voters favour a united Ireland,...
by RuthDE | Apr 28, 2021 | 2021, April, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
First, the bad news, though you know it already. Published: 27 April 2021 Until the Sinn Féin leopard changes its spots there’s no hope of having a stable government in Northern Ireland working for all its people. The Province is stuck for now with a disruptive...
by RuthDE | Nov 11, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, November
The RUC are consistently betrayed, but they have much to be proud of, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 November 2019 Last week I caught up on BBC iPlayer with Cops On The Frontline, directed by Dubliner Gerry Gregg, one of a handful of citizens of the Republic...
