Jude Collins

  It’s a long time ago now since I discovered the animosity of Free Staters towards northerners. They did not like anything that challenged the status quo. They were happy with Partition and did not care about what the British did in the six counties.  Over many years, I have received letters mostly anonymous from […]

  When we were young and the sun shone on a Sunday, my father would pile as many of us as would fit into an old Morris 8 and head for Bundoran. We were joyful from the start, but once we crossed the border we would yell and cheer. Nobody told us to do that, […]

  Will the Epstein files bring down Trump?He has resisted releasing them, but now he’s given in. And was Epstein working for Mossad? Where did he get all his money? Is the Covid report valid when it says that both the DUP and Sinn Féin gave very bad leadership during that time? Like during Bobby […]

So Father Timothy Bartlett has called for an independent investigation of BBC NI to check for anti-Catholic Church bias. I’ve met Timothy on a number of occasions: he’s a pleasant, shrewd,articulate man.  But as so often in cases like this, I find myself wondering “What took you so long?”    Except you live in an […]

                  From the beginning of Creation, water has been regarded as sacred and essential for life. Without water no thing or no living creature could live. Water is life. God created water so that we can live and all created things will thrive.   Even before Christianity, […]

Ivan Yates reminds me of Boris Johnson. He blunders from one career to another, he has a sense of humour even if it is coarse, and there appears to be no tight corner which he’s incapable of getting out of, usually with stuffed pockets.   I remember being interviewed by Ivan about my Martin McGuinness […]

It all depends on who you’re talking to. A Protestant friend of mine is not hostile to the idea  of a border poll, but he points out forcefully that there are people and whole communities who will resort to arms if a border poll is called. Maybe in 15 or 20 years we could look […]

    I did not have a vote in the recent Presidential election in Ireland. Along with many other citizens who hold Irish passports, I have been denied the vote by successive Dublin governments because they say we live outside the 26 county jurisdiction. However, that could be easily rectified by introducing legislation to allow […]

  This is a good day for Scotland and Ireland. Two events occurred quite separately, but both of them if followed up with the drive and determination they merit, could lead to glorious things.    Scotland’s football team last night in Hampden Park defeated Denmark, with superb goals by Scott McTominay and Kieran Nugent. That […]