I’m very relieved that Secretary of State Brandon Lewis did not cave into the pressure from politicians at home and abroad by setting up a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. Published: 1 December 2020 He has not said there will never be such an inquiry,...
Published: 26 november 2020 Four of Northern Ireland’s political parties (Sinn Fein, the equally nationalist but anti-violence SDLP, the Greens and the liberal Alliance) have sent a letter to Secretary of State Brandon Lewis calling for a public inquiry into the 1989...
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...
Shouldn’t Sinn Fein’s poster boy echo Nigel Dodds by condemning all terrorist murders, asks Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 30 September 2019 I’d love to believe that Sinn Fein are genuine about reconciliation, but they don’t half make it...
Lyra McKee was a brilliant journalist on the cusp of success, but also a wonderful friend, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 April 2019 At 6.30 last Friday morning I opened the email from Ann Travers with the subject “Shocking news”. It turned out I...
Defections, bad company, shocking manners and evading the truth make for a bad week, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 November 2019 Bearing in mind that Mary Lou McDonald persistently denies that her party’s haemorrhaging of elected representatives is...