by RuthDE | Feb 25, 2019 | 2019, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Gerry Adams didn’t understand the south, but Mary Lou McDonald is even worse about the North, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 24 February 2019 I was caught unawares last Tuesday on BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan morning show by Mary Lou... 
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 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 | 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 | Jun 19, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Deep divisions remain between North and South – and within the North itself Published: 17 June 2018 As I was ruminating on the implications of Leo Varadkar allegedly telling Fine Gael TDs that “the plates are shifting in Irish politics”, I... 
by RuthDE | May 8, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
The Sinn Fein leader has been successfully selling herself as the new face of her party, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: Sunday 6 May 2018 Mary Lou McDonald’s honeymoon with the electorate is going well so far, if today’s and other recent polls have... 
by RuthDE | Apr 11, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
O’Neill’s attack on violence of dissidents just lot of hot air as long as she still eulogises IRA Published: 9 April 2018 We’re all supposed to be thrilled that Michelle O’Neill said those who rioted in Londonderry on Easter Monday should be... 
by RuthDE | Feb 23, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Protestants need again to rescue Irish from those who use it only as a weapon, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published 19 February 2018 My favourite line in the coverage of last week’s talks farce was from Irish Times commentator Noel Whelan, a one-time Fianna Fail... 
