Last Wednesday was the second anniversary of the murder of my friend Lyra McKee, shot dead by a member of the New IRA who had been targeting police. Published: 6 April 2021 The alleged murderer is back in Derry and there is insufficient evidence to charge him. Friday...
Published: 23 April 2019When the IRA commits a particularly unpopular murder, It has three main choices: brazen it out, deny it or say “Ooops, sorry” and if possible blame the Brits.The murder in Londonderry on Thursday night of my friend, the much-loved 29-year-old...
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...
Published: 20 April 2019 “I didn’t know it was still going on,” is a comment I’ve heard frequently since Thursday night and the death of my friend Lyra McKee. But close followers of the situation in Northern Ireland are all too aware that there are still plenty of...
Published: 21 April 2019 I’ve been writing and talking about my dead friend Lyra McKee for the best part of two days, and have little to add to my tributes to the talented, lovable, warm, kind, empathetic, funny, curious, eager, original, hard-working, brave though...
Lyra McKee was a brilliant journalist on the cusp of success, but also a wonderful friend, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 April 2019 At 6.30 last Friday morning I opened the email from Ann Travers with the subject “Shocking news”. It turned out I...
Published: 20 April 2019 Lyra had such a genius for friendship and such an extraordinary ability to connect with people of all ages and backgrounds – and even sexual inclinations – that there’s people queuing up to share grief and stories about this...
I may be known for my attacks on Sinn Fein, but I hold no bias on subject of paramilitarism, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 10 December 2018 A tweet last week after I’d had an altercation with James Wilson of the Loyalist Communities Council said:...
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...
Published: 3 June 2018 Last Thursday, Dr Colum McCaffrey who taught Political Communication for 20 years in UCD, blogged about media partiality during the referendum campaign for Mary Lou McDonald as a Yes spokesperson. “Over the past few weeks journalists and...
