May, 2018

These are dangerous days. What happens inside the next year, perhaps the next few months will go to shape the lives of Irish people north and south. An unsettling feature in the recent Brexit negotiations has been the word “compromise”. The journalist Stephen Collins (no relation) used it in the Irish Times, and Irish Minister […]

If you want a comparison between the south of Ireland and our own little North-Eastern Nest (NEN), you could do worse than check out the different between Dublin airport and Belfast International airport. It tells you something about the insecurity of our NEN authorities that Belfast, which doesn’t fly to anywhere near as many international […]

  Sometimes you think British politicians just don’t get it. Either that or they’re brazen-faced liars when they get up to speak about our NEN and justice. Theresa May was at it yesterday. “The situation we have at the moment is that the only people being investigated for these issues that happened in the past […]

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  I’m pleased to report that my publisher (Mercier Press) have sold out their first print run of ‘Martin McGuinnness: The Man I Knew’ (4,000 copies) and have ordered a second print run.

  ‘MARTIN MCGUINNESS: THE MAN I KNEW’ by JUDE COLLINS   (A REVIEW by Perkin Warbeck)   The   stony grey silence which has thus far greeted Martin McGuinness: The Man I Knew by Jude Collins on both sides of the British Border prompts one to paraphrase the famous rhetorical question of St. Samuel A’Beckett: ‘What is […]

Has Donal Trump been talking to someone on this side of the Atlantic? Probably not. Other sources, including the voices in his head, have told him that he should revoke the Iran nuclear deal. Revoke – a darlin’ word. The original Iran nuclear deal was signed up to in 2015  by China, France, Germany, Russia […]

The referendum to Repeal the Eighth will be held on 25 May. This will then make it possible to pass legislation where women can have abortion on demand up to twelve weeks. The papers and airwaves are full of it, yet many of those commenting seem happy to talk about anything but the central issue […]

The picture of Cliftonville football team, before the Cup Final against Coleraine on Saturday, standing with heads bowed during the playing of ‘God Save The Queen’ has flashed around the world. it has echoes of the American athletes who have found ways of registering their distaste for Donald Trump by their pre-match posture, or James […]

  Why is Arlene Foster and the DUP  so opposed to a border in the Irish Sea? That is, allowing Northeastern Ireland to trade freely with the south of Ireland, and have customs checks between NI and Britain? The answer is obvious: they don’t like to be treated differently from the rest of the UK, […]