by RuthDE | Aug 28, 2025 | 2025, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
The obituaries of Martin Smyth over the last few days took me back to the 1990s when I was getting to know the loyal institutions up close. Published: 28 August 2025 I wasn’t much of a fan of his politics. At a time when Sinn Fein were doing a fine job of bamboozling...
by RuthDE | Jul 17, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, July
I paid a brief nostalgic visit to the Twelfth this year – almost four decades since I first went near a parade. Published: 17 July 2025 From a largely Roman Catholic background (although my English paternal grandfather was a Methodist-turned-Quaker, and I had...
