Published: 17 October 2019 Twitter is a useful safety valve. I’ve been enjoying some reactions to a bizarre performance last night on Channel 4 News by a beefy chap in a balaclava – whose identity was protected by a weird voice-over, more Scottish than Irish. He...
McKee bravely shone a light on sectarian violence in Northern Ireland — then became one of its victims Published: 1 September 2019 Though I’ve known many people bereaved or injured during 25 years of covering Northern Ireland as a journalist, Lyra McKee is the only...
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...
Published: 22 April 2019 I was brought up a Roman Catholic but I ceased to be a believer a very long time ago. Yet I would describe myself as a Christian atheist, for of all the religions I know about, it is Christianity I most admire and feel at home with. There is...
Published: 19 April 2019 Lyra was killed yesterday in Londonderry whilst covering riots in Creggan She had previously investigated the Ulster Unionist MP Robert Bradford The 29-year-old was only eight-years-old when the Troubles came to an end Age, religion,...
