The names of political parties often don’t convey much information. Published: 12 October 2021 If you were a stranger to Northern Ireland politics, what would you make of the Democratic Unionist Party, the Progressive Unionist Party, the Traditional Unionist Party and...
I’m writing this on May 3, Northern Ireland’s hundredth birthday. Published: 3 May 2021 My hope is that the next hundred years will be free of the violence and misery that was so often up to now imposed on peaceful people all over Ireland by intolerant, murderous...
For the sake of Ireland, Naomi Long needs to avoid being entrapped by Sinn Fein, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 17 June 2019 After the Northern Ireland local elections last month, Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris cast a critical eye at the...
Gerry Adams has left his chosen successor a horrendous collection of problems, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: Sunday 11 February 2018 In normal political parties almost everyone wants to be leader. But how many senior people in Sinn Fein truly envy Mary Lou...
