by RuthDE | Mar 14, 2019 | 2019, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 14 March 2019Most law-abiding people in Northern Ireland believe that anyone who committed a crime should be brought to justice – and that the terrible events of Bloody Sunday were inexcusable. What is causing enormous distress is the completely... 
by RuthDE | Feb 3, 2019 | 2019, Journalism, Reaction
Published: 1 February 2019I can’t resist joining the Reaction argument over Irish journalist Fintan O’Toole. Writing for this site earlier this week, Eilis O’Hanlon, my esteemed colleague on the Sunday Independent and the Belfast Telegraph, accused him of having... 
by RuthDE | Jan 25, 2019 | 2019, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 24 January 2019 “If you’d like to push me and speculate on what might happen in a no-deal scenario in Ireland, I think it’s pretty obvious – you will have a hard border”, said Margaritis Schinas, the EU Chief Spokesperson on Tuesday,... 
by RuthDE | Dec 4, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
When I put myself in Mary Lou McDonald’s shoes, I can almost feel some sympathy for herPublished: 2 December 2018Well, goodness me, poor Mary Lou McDonald continues to have a really rough time.Even the Taoiseach – who up to now appeared to be in blissful... 
by RuthDE | Sep 24, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
SF got off lightly after its pathetic response to Ombudsman’s report on abuse probe, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 24 September 2018 There was plenty of bile on Twitter the day after the Spotlight interview with Mairia Cahill about the Police... 
by RuthDE | Sep 10, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
The timing of the presidential visit is bad for both the Irish government and Sinn Fein, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 10 September 2018 My fellow columnist Fionola Meredith produced here on Friday an admirable and entertaining evisceration of the... 
by RuthDE | Sep 3, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
A festival with The Wolfe Tones top of the bill can only send one message to unionists, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 20 August 2018 If you book The Wolfe Tones, you’re licensing a group to sing rabble-rousing songs about how the IRA stood up for Mopes (most... 
by RuthDE | Aug 29, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Referendum to widen franchise on poll for head of state is new republican battleground, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 August 2018 Referendums, as we know all too well since the battles in the UK over Brexit and in the Irish Republic over same-sex marriage... 
by RuthDE | Jul 30, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
The pair would do well to remember what happened when Celtic Tiger died, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 30 July 2018 Simon Coveney, the Republic of Ireland’s Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been making his presence felt of late in the UK.... 
by RuthDE | Jul 30, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Taoiseach’s attitude to Brexit is so extreme that he is becoming a British tabloid hate figure, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 29 July 2018 What on earth is going on with Leo Varadkar? Is he trying to appeal to Sinn Fein voters by making a bogus fuss...
