As polls show many voters rejecting tribalism, the two main Unionist parties are likely to be devising a joint strategy Published: 19 June 2021 It’s easy to laugh at Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party: its followers are almost all Christian and socially...
As I got to know people in Northern Ireland who had been caught up by terrible events, I developed a great admiration for ordinary people who cope courageously with extraordinary challenges. Published: 9 February 2021 Most recently we have the phenomenon of Captain...
We should honour those people who were forced to choose and took the courageous path Published: 16 February 2020 Here’s a story for anyone who has ever wondered how they would behave in wartime. Would they be cowards? Would they be heroes? Roy Kells, who was...
With quiet courage, it defended people’s right to go about their daily business, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 February 2019 I was a guest speaker last Saturday week at a reunion in the Clogher Valley for ex-members of the Ulster Defence Regiment. It...
All decent people should stand with organisations like SEFF as they battle for justice, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 2 April 2018 Kenny Donaldson of SEFF with Florence Graham and Serena Hamilton, who lost oved ones to terrorism in Co Fermanagh My default...
Memorial service saw an extraordinary cast of characters honour a good and brave man, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 March 2018 ‘If we can’t forgive Sean O’Callaghan, who can we forgive?” was asked by a born-again Christian last...
It doesn’t really fit the republican narrative, says Ruth Dudley Edwards, but Sean O’Callaghan was greatly loved Published: 24 March 2018 The first song from the choir last Wednesday at the “Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving” for...
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...
