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 | Jan 25, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
Last week I was on Talkback disagreeing with the journalist Susan McKay about her charge that Kate Hoey was sectarian — one piece of evidence being that Hoey had attended “a barbecue for the extremist TUV party” (as she wrote in an Irish Times article on January 8)....
by RuthDE | Nov 25, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, November
Considering brain is not fully developed until 25, lowering age of suffrage is madness, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 November 2019 Occasionally I’m asked to comment on radio or in person on the demand to give 16-year-olds the vote. Almost inevitably...
