Before I get to my main subject, Joe Brolly, I can’t resist commenting on the startling sight in this newspaper. Published: 26 October 2021 Breandán MacCionnaith, now secretary of something called the Garvaghy Road Mayfair Business Centre, in a photograph of five...
As much as any Pope, President Michael D Higgins believes himself infallible. Published: 4 October 2021 Yet his recent behaviour has had an utterly toxic effect on relationships between nationalists and unionists in this centenary year. It has forced hidden hatreds...
The row over President Michael D. Higgins’s bizarre rejection of the invitation to the ecumenical church event in Armagh has generated oceans of comment in the media, but one of the most acute analyses I’ve seem was in an email. Published: 28 September 2021 Michael...
Before I get on to two subjects with which I hope to cheer up at least some of my readers, just a few words about something else. Published: 21 September 2021 The media’s seemed to me to show extraordinary lack of compassion about the unexpected death of the prime...
We’re living through a disaster that should be causing all patriotic Americans to wonder if it isn’t time to revisit their methods of choosing their leaders. Published: 24 August 2021 The world was understandably extremely rude about a system that produced Donald...
Jean Kennedy Smith was Irish republicanism’s ambassador to the US, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 22 June 2020 Regretting the death of Jean Kennedy Smith, US Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 for five years, who died last Wednesday in Manhattan aged 92,...
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...
It’s an unexciting field in the race for the presidency, but that’s no reason to vote for the horse we know best, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 October 2018 Try as I might, I can’t yet find a candidate to cheer for in the presidential race....
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...
