by RuthDE | Feb 5, 2026 | 2026, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
I disliked everything about Peter Mandelson when I first became aware of him in the early days of New Labour. Published: 5 February 2026 He seemed to me to epitomise everything I loathed about the new manifestation of his party: amorality, style over substance and...
by RuthDE | Jun 6, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
I’m sorry that other commitments made me miss the Northern Ireland centenary celebrations on Saturday. Published: 31 May 2022 I am so not least because as this paper’s editor Ben Lowry put it — it’s been a “front-rank scandal” that this huge milestone has been given...
by RuthDE | Feb 1, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
I don’t like being labelled, but after covering Northern Ireland as a journalist for almost 30 years, I can now formally announce I am no longer a political agnostic: I am a unionist. Being from a Dublin Catholic mostly-soft-nationalist background and living in...
