by RuthDE | Jan 11, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
My apologies to Professor Colin Harvey of Ireland’s Future, an organisation whose mission is ‘Paving the way to the reunification of the island’. Published: 11 January 2022 When just before the New Year I wrote my annual list of people I would like to send to a desert...
by RuthDE | Sep 21, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
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...
by RuthDE | Aug 3, 2021 | 2021, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
It was down memory lane again for me last month about the 1998 Omagh bomb, first with a conversation at a London party with David Trimble and Peter Mandelson, and then with two surprising court judgements in Belfast and Dublin. Published: 3 August 2021 After the three...
by RuthDE | Aug 13, 2019 | 2019, August, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 5 August 2019 He’s only been in the door five minutes and has hardly begun putting names to faces, yet already Julian Smith, the new Secretary of State, has had to order an internal review into a problem he must find preposterous – the...
by RuthDE | Oct 10, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
As republicans dissemble in order to cover up their murderous past, decent people know truth, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 8 October 2018 Another week in Sinn Fein’s historical rewriting project brought us a major contribution from Gerry Kelly, one of...
by RuthDE | Oct 3, 2018 | 2018, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
In the latest essay in our series, RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS writes that the NIO has come up with is a Sinn Fein wish list on legacy, but it is not too late to fight back Published: 2 October 2018 In four decades of following events in Northern Ireland closely, I’ve seen...
by RuthDE | Jul 16, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Policy should put the welfare of victims before the appeasement of perpetrators, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards <img data-attachment-id=”686″...
by RuthDE | Jul 9, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
The Defence Minister’s amnesty proposal gives republicans credibility they have craved, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 9 July 2018 Just before writing about legacy issues, I read Gerry Adams’ blog about the erection of a stone dedicated to Martin...
