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,...
I have sympathy for a man buffeted by forces inside and outside the Vatican, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 August 2018 It’s a dreadful job being Pope these days, as the world learns more of the terrible secrets the Vatican and Roman Catholic clergy...
A festival with The Wolfe Tones top of the bill can only send one message to unionists, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 20 August 2018 If you book The Wolfe Tones, you’re licensing a group to sing rabble-rousing songs about how the IRA stood up for Mopes (most...
Foster and Robinson have made important speeches recently which we need to discuss, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 12 August 2018 I’ve been reading and hearing a lot recently about unionist attitudes to the possibility of losing a border poll on a united...
Varadkar’s Orange Order visit cold comfort if he forms ties with terror apologists, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 June 2018 The headline in Irish Republican News was ‘A rumoured alliance between Sinn Fein and Fine Gael appears closer this week after...
The British Government has been weak, the Irish gullible and the EU cynical, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 June 2018 I regret all sorts of things about the timid way in which the British Government is negotiating Brexit and the foolishness of the Irish...
Published: 3 June 2018 Last Thursday, Dr Colum McCaffrey who taught Political Communication for 20 years in UCD, blogged about media partiality during the referendum campaign for Mary Lou McDonald as a Yes spokesperson. “Over the past few weeks journalists and...
The Family and Friends of Sean O’Callaghan invite you to a Memorial Service at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, at 10.30am on Wednesday 21st March 2018, and afterwards at the Café Koha, 10-11 St Martin’s Court, London WC2 4AJ. Published: 8 March 2018 Will...
