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)....
I had a strange, draining and unforgettable Sunday. Published; 9 November 2021 It caused among many other emotions sadness, despair and occasionally laughter, during a tour of killing sites and memorials in south Armagh and at the launch in Belfast of a documentary on...
It’s got to the stage that people are afraid to say anything in case they get sued, Ruth,” wrote Dr Ken Funston, manager of the Advocacy for Innocent Victims team of SEFF (South East Fermanagh Foundation) last week during a Facebook debate. Published: 13 October 2020...
Artillery Row Published: 14 May 2020 My, my, what a happy day for supporters of the IRA everywhere. The Supreme Court has found for Gerry Adams in his claim that in the early 1970s he had been illegally interned in Northern Ireland, and it has quashed his two...
Shouldn’t Sinn Fein’s poster boy echo Nigel Dodds by condemning all terrorist murders, asks Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 30 September 2019 I’d love to believe that Sinn Fein are genuine about reconciliation, but they don’t half make it...
McKee bravely shone a light on sectarian violence in Northern Ireland — then became one of its victims Published: 1 September 2019 Though I’ve known many people bereaved or injured during 25 years of covering Northern Ireland as a journalist, Lyra McKee is the only...
Lyra McKee was a brilliant journalist on the cusp of success, but also a wonderful friend, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 April 2019 At 6.30 last Friday morning I opened the email from Ann Travers with the subject “Shocking news”. It turned out I...
Revealed: the fantasy reality show line-up of those who got under my skin in 2018. By Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 31 December 2018 Annually, after wide consultation, I provide a list of people I think Northern Ireland would be better off without. Since the object...
