by RuthDE | Jun 20, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
Once again, I find myself extremely partisan in war. I cheer on Ukraine vs Russia and Israel vs Iran and its evil proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. Unlike the BBC, I see no moral equivalence. Published: 19 June 2025 Putin is a very bad man who sees himself...
by RuthDE | Sep 26, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
This month marked the 50th anniversary of the murders by the IRA of two fine men who represented people across the religious and political divide. Published: 26 September 2024 Magistrate Martin McBirney — chairman of the Northern Ireland Society of Labour Lawyers,...
by RuthDE | Nov 14, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November
Even in these terrible times, there are moments of joy from the Middle East. While Israel struggles for survival, and we mourn direct and indirect victims of the Hamas death cult, Douglas Murray’s online devastating put-downs of ignorance, hypocrisy, groupthink and...
by RuthDE | Sep 12, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
At the weekend I watched with fascination every episode of Stephen Nolan’s “Jailed: Inside Maghaberry Prison”. Published: 12 September 2023 I haven’t had occasion to visit many prisons, but like some other journalists who sought to learn the truth about the IRA, I...
by RuthDE | Sep 7, 2023 | 2023, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
I saw a documentary the other day that brought the late Brian Keenan vividly back to the forefront of my memory. Published: 22 August 2023 He’s not talked about much these days, for — as the driving force for decades of the IRA —he’s now an embarrassment to the Sinn...
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 | Apr 18, 2023 | 2023, April, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
When she reflects on the past 25 years, Ruth Dudley Edwards is haunted by memories of her two close friends, David Trimble and Lyra McKee, two gifted but very different people who bookend that period Published: 18 April 2023 For the last few weeks I’ve been...
by RuthDE | Feb 14, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
What should happen to Manchester United’s Mason Greenwood now his case of attempted rape has been dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service? Published: 14 February 2023 Greenwood has not appeared for United or England since. Discussing this, the Matthew Syed, the...
by RuthDE | Aug 3, 2022 | 2022, Daily Mail, Journalism, July
RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS pays tribute to a humble colossus of peace Published: 26 July 2022 My long and close friendship with David Trimble began in 1985 at yet another conference lamenting the sorry state of Northern Ireland. A friend and I decided to alleviate the...
by RuthDE | Aug 10, 2021 | 2021, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
First, I’d like to say that that though I wish him the very best, I’m sorry that Sam McBride is leaving the News Letter to take up an offer he can’t refuse. Published: 10 August 2021 I am proud to write for a newspaper that gives journalists their heads and allows...
