by RuthDE | Jan 16, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
It was in September 1974 that two Post Office investigators arrived at my office in the City of London. Published: 16 January 2024 I had long ago buried the memory. But watching the heart-rending TV series “Mr Bates versus the Post Office” last week brought it all...
by RuthDE | Dec 8, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, December, Journalism
Doug Beattie, leader of the UUP, and Mary Lou McDonald, president of Sinn Fein, were in the United States last week. Published: 7 December 2021 Separately, they met many of the same people and addressed several of the same New York and Washington audiences, but they...
by RuthDE | Sep 29, 2020 | 2020, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
Well, the tweet from editor Alistair Bushe last Wednesday saying I was joining the News Letter certainly got the Shinnerbots excited. Published: 29 September 2020 For those of you who ignore social media, these are the armies of Sinn Fein supporters who assemble on...
by RuthDE | Sep 21, 2020 | 2020, Daily Telegraph, Journalism, September
The Democratic Party has a habit of falling for bogus Irish republican narratives Published: 18 September 2020 If it wasn’t for that strain in the Democratic party that takes leave of its senses when it thinks about Ireland, we shouldn’t worry that President Joe Biden...
by RuthDE | Jun 23, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, June
Jean Kennedy Smith was Irish republicanism’s ambassador to the US, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 22 June 2020 Regretting the death of Jean Kennedy Smith, US Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 for five years, who died last Wednesday in Manhattan aged 92,...
by RuthDE | Apr 27, 2020 | 2020, April, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Ex-party leader’s main resemblance to Patrick Pearse is economic illiteracy, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 April 2020 Gerry Adams hasn’t gone away, you know. My dear little friend Lyra McKee had a keen sense of fun, so she would have seen the...
by RuthDE | May 13, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, May
Romanticising those who murdered in the name of Ireland is no path to glory, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 May 2019 Sara Canning said last Wednesday evening on Channel 4 News: “No one’s going to tell me what I can and can’t say at this...
by RuthDE | Apr 23, 2019 | 2019, April, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 23 April 2019 “What we are seeing is a new breed of terrorist coming through the ranks, and that is a very worrying situation,” said Detective Superintendent Jason Murphy on Saturday, as two teenagers were being questioned in Belfast under the Terrorism Act...
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 | Jul 30, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Taoiseach’s attitude to Brexit is so extreme that he is becoming a British tabloid hate figure, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 29 July 2018 What on earth is going on with Leo Varadkar? Is he trying to appeal to Sinn Fein voters by making a bogus fuss...
