The anniversary of the Omagh bombing of August 1998 weighs heavily on me every year. My sadness does not begin to compare to that suffered by family, friends and neighbours of the dead and the injured, but I spent a decade closely involved with that small, brave...
An unlikely trio were linked in the news last week: Kenny Donaldson, Joe Brolly and Bernadette McAliskey. Published: 4 January 2022 My friend Kenny was recognised in the New Year Honours list with an MBE for his magnificent work as Director of Services at the South...
Every time I hear the sanctimonious voice of Peter Hain — that one-time rebel and enthusiast for Irish unity who in 2015 swapped his Commons seat for a peerage — I struggle to understand why the media think him an expert on legacy issues. Published: 18 May 2021 There...
My hope for post-Brexit, post-Covid Northern Ireland is that its good people work together to exploit future opportunities. Published: 5 January 2021 They will have to do so despite the continual destructiveness of Sinn Fein, which skilfully uses its dark arts to...
I come from Dublin and live in London, but I love Northern Ireland and have been missing it and my friends here during lockdown Published: 7 October 2020 So I was glad to go to Belfast last week, even though it was for consultations with lawyers about yet another...
Published: 17 August 2020 I have been so unremitting and harsh a critic of the IRA and Sinn Fein since the early 1990s, that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness tried hard to have me silenced. Sinn Fein still try to shut me up with the help of libel lawyers, and an army...
We should challenge false narrative peddled by Sinn Fein over late IRA man, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 29 June 2020 When it comes to the deaths of those associated with Sinn Fein and the IRA, I don’t adhere to the convention that one should postpone...
Many ex-terrorists will be feeling uneasy after John Downey was found liable for atrocity, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 22 December 2019 Victims of two terrible crimes – the Hyde Park and Omagh bombings – have had notable victories this year....
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...
Published: 8 April 2019 In A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA In The Republic of Ireland, 1969-1980, Gearoid O Faolean provides telling stories about the island-wide sympathy for physical force nationalism that was evident from the beginning of the Troubles. People...
