Sinn Fein is bent on expanding Republic’s disastrous attempts to revive the tongue, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 28 January 2019 I’m fed up with the all-Ireland double standards that surround a language for which I have respect and affection and...
Slavish towards Brussels and meddlesome up north amounts to a bad combination, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 14 May 2018 The DUP’s Sammy Wilson got cross last week about Leo Varadkar’s revelation that the Irish government had proposed “a joint...
A new book offers a moral solution to the legacy issue that is bedevilling negotiations, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 30 April 2018 Dear Secretary of State, You have been given the thankless job of trying to restore the Executive by squaring circles and...
Despite the fuss, my criticisms of the Belfast Agreement have nothing to do with Brexit, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: Sunday 25 February 2018 Last week an article of mine in The Daily Telegraph sparked off a big row between Brexiteers and Remainers over the...
Protestants need again to rescue Irish from those who use it only as a weapon, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published 19 February 2018 My favourite line in the coverage of last week’s talks farce was from Irish Times commentator Noel Whelan, a one-time Fianna Fail...
