by RuthDE | Sep 12, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
I am eternally grateful to the people of Northern Ireland for giving me so many examples over several decades of human nature at its best and worst. Published: 12 September 2024 “Man’s inhumanity to man/Makes countless thousands mourn!” wrote Robert Burns 240...
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 | 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...
