by RuthDE | Jan 14, 2019 | 2019, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Sinn Fein’s refusal to allow its representatives to vote with their consciences may prove very costly, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 January 2019 ‘How many Cork people does it take to found a movement to break the political cartel?”... 
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 | Nov 28, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Defections, bad company, shocking manners and evading the truth make for a bad week, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 November 2019 Bearing in mind that Mary Lou McDonald persistently denies that her party’s haemorrhaging of elected representatives is... 
by RuthDE | Nov 5, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
The disastrous Sinn Fein electoral performance has seriously weakened Mary Lou McDonald, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 November 2018 So who really runs Sinn Fein? The same people as always, mostly. Despite what seem to be Mary Lou McDonald’s occasional... 
by RuthDE | Oct 29, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Party puppeteers must be seething Sinn Fein blew €200k on such pathetic campaign, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 29 October 2018 If Mary Lou McDonald was the leader of a normal political party, after the disastrous performance of Liadh Ni Riada in the Irish... 
by RuthDE | Oct 10, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
As republicans dissemble in order to cover up their murderous past, decent people know truth, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 8 October 2018 Another week in Sinn Fein’s historical rewriting project brought us a major contribution from Gerry Kelly, one of... 
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 24, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Sinn Fein doesn’t know what to do about Mairia Cahill, who has been proved to have been telling the truth and refuses to go away, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 23 September 2018 The late Siobhan O’Hanlon, for many years Gerry Adams’s personal... 
by RuthDE | Sep 17, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
If Sinn Fein wins on the legacy proposals our government endorses, the law will become an accessory after the fact, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 16 September 2018 I’m rejoicing that the brave and dogged Mairia Cahill has been vindicated, that the PSNI... 
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...
