In the week in which Austin Currie died, two members of the SDLP — the party he co-founded — made comments about the RUC that would, I believe, have shocked that anti-sectarian. Published: 16 November 2021 As his friend the UUP’s Lord (Ken) Maginnis said of him,...
My hope for post-Brexit, post-Covid Northern Ireland is that its good people work together to exploit future opportunities. Published: 5 January 2021 They will have to do so despite the continual destructiveness of Sinn Fein, which skilfully uses its dark arts to...
We should stand up to the haters and extol the fine men and women of the force, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 18 November 2019 The RUC have been portrayed as “villains-in-chief from central casting”, said Mick Fealty. “The singular exception...
The RUC are consistently betrayed, but they have much to be proud of, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 November 2019 Last week I caught up on BBC iPlayer with Cops On The Frontline, directed by Dubliner Gerry Gregg, one of a handful of citizens of the Republic...
In the latest essay in our series, RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS writes that the NIO has come up with is a Sinn Fein wish list on legacy, but it is not too late to fight back Published: 2 October 2018 In four decades of following events in Northern Ireland closely, I’ve seen...
Enemies of police from north and south still spread their lies and hate, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 October 2018 The hatred of police is still alive and well in the psyche of extreme Irish republicans and it still contaminates wider public attitudes....
Sinn Fein doesn’t know what to do about Mairia Cahill, who has been proved to have been telling the truth and refuses to go away, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 23 September 2018 The late Siobhan O’Hanlon, for many years Gerry Adams’s personal...
If Sinn Fein wins on the legacy proposals our government endorses, the law will become an accessory after the fact, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 16 September 2018 I’m rejoicing that the brave and dogged Mairia Cahill has been vindicated, that the PSNI...
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...
Force in Republic needs reform, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards, and politicians, media and citizens know it Published: 2 July 2018 Other than an unpleasant intervention in the Dail by Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald, in the Republic the appointment of PSNI Deputy...
