Apart from a few extreme Republican trolls, Queen Elizabeth is being mourned in Ireland, north and south Published: 9 September 2022 Apart from a few extreme Republican trolls shouting on social media about colonial wrongs, Queen Elizabeth is being mourned in Ireland,...
I’ve been thinking and reading about Prince Philip since I heard the news of his death. Published: 13 April 2021 It surprised me how upset I was. As he had kept pointing out, he was old and it was his time to die. For Covid-related reasons, I was alone as I watched...
Published: May 15 2020 When he was in his cradle, the Good Fairy promised Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson that he would become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Bad Fairy chuckled malevolently and said “Wait till he sees what I’ve got in store for him.”...
Revealed: the fantasy reality show line-up of those who got under my skin in 2018. By Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 31 December 2018 Annually, after wide consultation, I provide a list of people I think Northern Ireland would be better off without. Since the object...
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...
The timing of the MP’s suspension is difficult for the Tories, the DUP and SF, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 23 July 2018 I can’t pretend to be astounded by the news about DUP MP Ian Paisley in relation to eye-wateringly luxurious and undeclared...
What next for Ireland now that the Republic has astounded the pundits by producing a landslide in favour of overturning the 1983 constitutional amendment that gave equal rights to the unborn? Published: 27 May 2018 As the journalist Jason O’Mahony tweeted...
Published: 23 May 2018 If it were not for its offensiveness to tens of thousands of victims of IRA violence, Jeremy Corbyn’s visit to Northern Ireland would be comic. In his past incursions into matters Irish, he has appeared to reveal simultaneously ignorance,...
Published: 11 May 2018 I’m with Julie Bindel in fighting disgusting practices such as Female Genital Mutilation and in standing up to the trans mob, but I part company with her over the abortion debate in Ireland, about which she is so impatient. I abandoned...
Despite the fuss, my criticisms of the Belfast Agreement have nothing to do with Brexit, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: Sunday 25 February 2018 Last week an article of mine in The Daily Telegraph sparked off a big row between Brexiteers and Remainers over the...
