Jude Collins

  OK, OK. Let me declare my interest. I have always liked something about Malachi O’Doherty, and not just because he once audio-recorded a statement  which helped me win a £1000 bet. He’s pugnacious, shrewd and knows what goes down well with interviewers. But it’s important to distinguish between the man/person and the ground on […]

Donald J Chump roared “Drill Baby Drill”. The outcome may well be:   Burn Baby Burn   – We are in thrall to Philistines   Lyrics:   Now I don’t mean to be a stick in the dirtThe world is changing only in reverseAnd you can’t live your life for what it’s worthCos it’s a hell on earthThe world today […]

    I was told one time, on good authority that the beginning of the peace process in Ireland really dates to the day when Peter Brooke, Secretary of State, made a speech at the London Chamber of Commerce in 1990. In that speech Brooke stated that Britain had no longer a strategic interest in […]

  Mr Starmer (aka Sir Keir) who is now Britain’s first minister has met his match. As reported in the media he is determined to stop Gerry Adams, the former President of Sinn Fein, from receiving compensation for being illegally held in prison without trial in the early 1970s.  Gerry was one of several hundred arrested […]

a The same man in his inaugural speech proclaimed from his bullet-proof lectern that he was going to overthrow the establishment…while the three richest men in the world looked on, smiling from ear to ear at the fact they now have so much power. Can anyone say Oligarchy?  Only days before Trump’s inauguration, Mark Zuckerberg, […]

  Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said several things about a border poll.  On 3 July 2022 he said such a poll would “not be appropriate or right at this time”. On 27 October 2023  he said a united Ireland was “quite distant” and that a border poll would be “fraught with risk”. On 26 […]

.To be alone on a beachIs better than being in a vast crowdNeither speaking, or listening in turn.Civil Rights is a shared experience.A dialogue, between equals.Not a war, between peopleWho only seek inequalityFor their enemy.My fear is thatThe old hunger for a united IrelandIs not a search for equality.At present it is only an ambitionBased […]

    It’s a fault within us. Part of our culture. To only see the small crack Within the pane of glass But not see the window. To never see the window frame The window and rarely the view. Trapped in the detail. That’s us, a bunch of fuss pots.   We are mean that […]

So – the Christmas spirit has descended (maybe) on Gaza – a truce has been declared. It better swing into place quickly, because Israel has killed well over 100 Palestinians since it was called. It will start on Sunday. Or maybe Monday. But what’s 50 or 100 extra deaths in Gaza? In an article today, […]

So peace has broken out in the Middle East. Israel is taking a rest from its genocidal exertions, although according to the BBC,  ‘the  Israel-Palestine war’ is suspended. Sometimes fake efforts to suggest that Hamas has been an equal opponent over the last 15 months verge on the delusional.   Will this transform the Middle […]