by RuthDE | Mar 20, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, March
We don’t get enough laughs in life, particularly if we follow events in Northern Ireland, but I have enormously enjoyed at a distance the Saint Patrick’s Day events in Washington. Published: 20 March 2025 It takes me back to 2011, when the Felons Club...
by RuthDE | Jul 15, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, July
Post-election, I’m one of the cheerful unionists. There may not be many of us, but there should certainly be more than usual. Published: 11 July 2024 It helps that the shine has so come off Sinn Fein since the local and EU elections that only the very gullible are...
by RuthDE | Feb 22, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
Mick Fealty of the invaluable website sluggerotoole.com wrote for so many of us on Sunday after hearing the terrible news. Published: 22 February 2022 “The DUP MLA Christopher Stalford was one of the good guys. He was always sincere in his politics, proud of the fact...
by RuthDE | Feb 15, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
I apologise to those readers who hate Twitter, but awful though it can be, it’s a fact of life and like all political journalists I have to read it. Published: 15 February 2022 Last week’s highlights for me were not the usual entertainment of Shinnerbots spewing...
by RuthDE | Jan 25, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
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)....
by RuthDE | May 25, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
“Well when the votes were counted one parochial, backward looking, regressive who is 50 something and from Lagan Valley beat another one,” tweeted Alliance councillor Michael Long after the DUP leadership election. Published: 25 March 2021 “What is clear is that...
by RuthDE | Mar 30, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, March
Here’s a suggestion to unionism in dealing with Irish nationalism. Published: 30 March 2021 Stop reacting and take control of the agenda. “How do you feel about a united Ireland these days?” I recently asked a patriotic friend in the Irish Republic who takes more...
by RuthDE | Apr 13, 2020 | 2020, April, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Why does the party slavishly urge obedience to the World Health Organisation, asks Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 April 2020 Among all the questions to ask Michelle O’Neill about Sinn Fein’s health policy concerns is her new-found enthusiasm for the...
by RuthDE | Feb 3, 2020 | 2020, January, Journalism, The Article
Published: 31 January 2020 This evening at 11pm I’ll be drinking champagne with a few rejoicing friends, but my feelings will be mixed. I expect joy, optimism and excitement to predominate, but there will be flashes of sadness and worry, for I was born and brought up...
by RuthDE | Jan 6, 2020 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, December, Journalism
This is the time to learn from mistakes and search for the positive and constructive, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 29 December 2019 I’m in too good a mood to hurl myself crossly into writing my annual list suggesting who should be deported from Northern...
