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 | Jun 27, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
I often get asked why I write so often about Northern Ireland victims. As the pugnacious MP Clare Short put it when she learned that I was deeply involved with the civil case against the Omagh bombers, “Why pick at the scabs?” Published: 27 June 2024 Sinn Fein...
by RuthDE | Jun 20, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
Following the vote-counting process is always a serious sport in the Republic of Ireland. This year, local and EU parliamentary elections were held on Friday July 7. Published: 19 June 2024 I arrived in Dublin on the 8th and left on the 11th, by which time the local...
by RuthDE | Jun 6, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
Sinn Féin supporters were delighted with the news that Pat Cullen, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, is standing for their party for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the general election. Published: 6 June 2024 That it’s such a...
