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...
Sinn Fein/IRA might have stopped killing, but their destructiveness means they’re still a cancer on our islandPublished: 10 March 2019This column is packing its bags, so I thought I’d do a bit of a trip down memory lane.Just over 25 years ago, in January...
Relatives of those killed in the 1998 Real IRA attack overcame many obstacles to take a civil case, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published 7 February 2018 The news yesterday that the Hyde Park Justice Campaign has scored a famous victory took me back almost 15 years. It...