by RuthDE | Aug 15, 2023 | 2023, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
The anniversary of the Omagh bombing of August 1998 weighs heavily on me every year. My sadness does not begin to compare to that suffered by family, friends and neighbours of the dead and the injured, but I spent a decade closely involved with that small, brave...
by RuthDE | Apr 25, 2023 | 2023, April, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
I should warn you that I have no patience with the injunction not to speak ill of the dead. Published: 25 April 2023 If they’re bad, say so. I’m not a hater, but it’s a great pleasure to be able to say I think about unrepentant murderers like Martin McGuinness...
by RuthDE | Mar 2, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, March
Like a few other journalists, I have written occasionally about Roy Greenslade, a very successful journalist and later a professor of journalism who has caused a furore with an article in the Sunday Times. Published: 2 March 2021 In it, Greenslade explained how he...
by RuthDE | Jan 5, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
My hope for post-Brexit, post-Covid Northern Ireland is that its good people work together to exploit future opportunities. Published: 5 January 2021 They will have to do so despite the continual destructiveness of Sinn Fein, which skilfully uses its dark arts to...
by RuthDE | Sep 3, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
A festival with The Wolfe Tones top of the bill can only send one message to unionists, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 20 August 2018 If you book The Wolfe Tones, you’re licensing a group to sing rabble-rousing songs about how the IRA stood up for Mopes (most...
by RuthDE | Aug 29, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Twenty years after the bomb which killed 31 people, their relatives continue to fight on for the £1.6m in damages, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 August 2018 This Wednesday, August 15, 20 years after the terrible Omagh bomb, I’ll be at St...
by RuthDE | Apr 4, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
All decent people should stand with organisations like SEFF as they battle for justice, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 2 April 2018 Kenny Donaldson of SEFF with Florence Graham and Serena Hamilton, who lost oved ones to terrorism in Co Fermanagh My default...
by RuthDE | Feb 22, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Relatives of those killed in the 1998 Real IRA attack overcame many obstacles to take a civil case, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published 7 February 2018 The news yesterday that the Hyde Park Justice Campaign has scored a famous victory took me back almost 15 years. It...
