by RuthDE | Sep 26, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
This month marked the 50th anniversary of the murders by the IRA of two fine men who represented people across the religious and political divide. Published: 26 September 2024 Magistrate Martin McBirney — chairman of the Northern Ireland Society of Labour Lawyers,...
by RuthDE | Sep 20, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
Often, when it comes to Ireland, governments of the United Kingdom lose their moral compass. Published: 19 September 2024 For a variety of reasons they seem unable to see clearly what are issues of right and wrong, good and evil. We have a classic example at present...
by RuthDE | Nov 22, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November
Seán Murray – son of the more famous Seán ‘Spike’ who spent years in jail for explosives offences – came to mind last week for something that he tweeted. Published: 22 November 2022 He said that he would run “a free course for young working class loyalists/unionists....
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 | Jan 5, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
An unlikely trio were linked in the news last week: Kenny Donaldson, Joe Brolly and Bernadette McAliskey. Published: 4 January 2022 My friend Kenny was recognised in the New Year Honours list with an MBE for his magnificent work as Director of Services at the South...
by RuthDE | Dec 2, 2020 | 2020, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November
I’m very relieved that Secretary of State Brandon Lewis did not cave into the pressure from politicians at home and abroad by setting up a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. Published: 1 December 2020 He has not said there will never be such an inquiry,...
by RuthDE | Nov 30, 2020 | 2020, Journalism, November, Reaction
Published: 26 november 2020 Four of Northern Ireland’s political parties (Sinn Fein, the equally nationalist but anti-violence SDLP, the Greens and the liberal Alliance) have sent a letter to Secretary of State Brandon Lewis calling for a public inquiry into the 1989...
by RuthDE | May 14, 2020 | 2020, Journalism, May, The Critic
Artillery Row Published: 14 May 2020 My, my, what a happy day for supporters of the IRA everywhere. The Supreme Court has found for Gerry Adams in his claim that in the early 1970s he had been illegally interned in Northern Ireland, and it has quashed his two...
by RuthDE | Sep 30, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, September
Shouldn’t Sinn Fein’s poster boy echo Nigel Dodds by condemning all terrorist murders, asks Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 30 September 2019 I’d love to believe that Sinn Fein are genuine about reconciliation, but they don’t half make it...
by RuthDE | Mar 14, 2019 | 2019, Daily Telegraph, Journalism, March
Published: 14 March 2019Most law-abiding people in Northern Ireland believe that anyone who committed a crime should be brought to justice – and that the terrible events of Bloody Sunday were inexcusable. What is causing enormous distress is the completely...
