My sense of duty had me listen to a podcast of yet another prolonged whinge from Joe Brolly, football commentator and, God help us, these days a political pundit. Published: 30 May 2023 This was because of a conversation I had with a friend about a speech I’d...
I am now even more proud of being a columnist for this honourable newspaper, which revealed last week how and why it had successfully defended itself against an unjustified libel case. Published: 22 March 2022 “We were determined to fight this case,” wrote editor Ben...
Before I get to my main subject, Joe Brolly, I can’t resist commenting on the startling sight in this newspaper. Published: 26 October 2021 Breandán MacCionnaith, now secretary of something called the Garvaghy Road Mayfair Business Centre, in a photograph of five...
I always scan letters to newspapers. Published: 14 September 2021 Contributors know they have to be brief to be published, so they often can sum up very pithily what columnists tease out at much greater length. This, last week, in the Irish Sunday Independent,...
With some of the usual suspects still boring on about a border poll, I want to go back to basics. Published: 6 July 2021 I apologise to those who have heard this story before, but I think it one of the most telling comments about Irish aspirations to unity I’ve ever...
On Friday Twitter explained why it had permanently suspended a Twitter account in the name of Barbara Pym that had been founded and run by the Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris and friends. Published: 11 May 2021 “Using technology and human review in...
Stopping the Provos destroyed the SDLP and threatens the stability of NI and the Republic, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 10 August 2020 There were bucket-loads of effluent hurled last week at anyone who criticised John Hume for legitimising Sinn Fein. As Eilis...
Free speech is no excuse for being abusive to someone of a differing viewpoint, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 19 November 2018 The neighbours are having an almighty row,” wrote Gene Kerrigan in yesterday’s Sunday Independent. “Screaming,...
SF got off lightly after its pathetic response to Ombudsman’s report on abuse probe, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 24 September 2018 There was plenty of bile on Twitter the day after the Spotlight interview with Mairia Cahill about the Police...
