by RuthDE | Apr 2, 2024 | 2024, April, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
What a week it has been! The most urgent question is how to steady the political ship after disconcerting revelations about the two biggest parties in Northern Ireland politics. Published: 2 April 2024 The shock of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson being charged with historical...
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 | Feb 28, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
We should find a silver lining where we can, even in the worst moments. Published: 27 February 2023 That horrible attack on Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell — yet another fine policeman hated by bad people — has had the unintended consequence of bringing Sinn...
by RuthDE | Oct 20, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, October
Like so many others, I have been upset about Sir David Amess. Published: 19 October 2021 I am hoping that the murder of this thoroughly decent human being will have the unintended consequence of shaming those who routinely demonise politicians, especially Tories. It...
by RuthDE | Aug 17, 2021 | 2021, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
This is a story of some of the unintended consequences of political violence. Published: 17 August 2021 Thomas McElwee from Bellaghy, one of twelve children, was born in November 1957 into a republican and devoutly religious family, and loved machinery, stockcar...
by RuthDE | Jun 23, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, June
Jean Kennedy Smith was Irish republicanism’s ambassador to the US, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 22 June 2020 Regretting the death of Jean Kennedy Smith, US Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 for five years, who died last Wednesday in Manhattan aged 92,...
by RuthDE | May 26, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, May
Palestinians can only be seen as victims and the Israelis as oppressors in its view, writes Ruth Dudley-Edwards Published: 25 May 2020 Two recent happenings made an unexpected connection for me very recently. One was an intensification of the campaign to have the next...
by RuthDE | May 14, 2020 | 2020, Journalism, May, The Critic
Artillery Row Published: 14 May 2020 My, my, what a happy day for supporters of the IRA everywhere. The Supreme Court has found for Gerry Adams in his claim that in the early 1970s he had been illegally interned in Northern Ireland, and it has quashed his two...
by RuthDE | Apr 11, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
O’Neill’s attack on violence of dissidents just lot of hot air as long as she still eulogises IRA Published: 9 April 2018 We’re all supposed to be thrilled that Michelle O’Neill said those who rioted in Londonderry on Easter Monday should be...
