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...
Last week I was on Talkback disagreeing with the journalist Susan McKay about her charge that Kate Hoey was sectarian — one piece of evidence being that Hoey had attended “a barbecue for the extremist TUV party” (as she wrote in an Irish Times article on January 8)....
Gerry Adams will not appreciate Hollywood’s plan to tell the story of tragic widow, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 March 2019 One of my abiding hopes, and I am an optimist, is that Nemesis will yet catch up with Gerry Adams, that poster boy for Teflon....
Mary Lou McDonald has a tough time while she rides two such incompatible horses Published: 1 July 2018 Last week, the Belfast Newsletter had a major interview with Mary Lou McDonald. It can’t have been easy, for she is simultaneously riding two horses of...
The 37 academics who wrote to complain demonstrated double standards and contempt for free speech, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 18 June 2018 Universities are increasingly under pressure from bullying lobby groups to abandon free speech. Consider this...
