Author Jude Collins

Men who want power make it simple. They make their messages short. Lenin was serious about power and he offered the masses PEACE, LAND, AND BREAD. He won enough support to establish a state that lasted three-quarters of a century, though without delivering on all the promises. Boris Johnson was serious about wanting to be […]

It seems that Michael D Higgins is not the man he was: he has disappointed unionism by not attending that commemoration ceremony in Armagh. Was he right to reject it?After all, Catholic Archbishop Eamon Martin is going to it. The Zappone affair rumbles on. Matt Carthy of Sinn Féin has talked about ‘a sting’ and […]

The DUP are not a bit pleased with President Michael D Higgins. Peter Weir wants to know if the President is joining Sinn Féin and the SDLP in boycotting all events marking the establishment of NEI one hundred years ago. He’s written to the President “asking if his office is officially snubbing all events marking […]

This is the second review sent to me by a former classmate. Bain sult as –  Enjoy CLASS WAR A teacher’s diary 320pp. Biteback. £16.99. Anonymous Anonymous is at the end of his tether. After a quarter of a century teaching at a woefully underfunded secondary state school in Northern Ireland, he shares his jaded reflections, in diary-entry form, on the six months leading up to his drafting of a […]

Angela Merkel is about to retire any day now. We have a look at her legacy and consider how unlike Trump etc she is. She will be missed. Fianna Fáil is not thinking of retiring but it could be heading for the exit just the same. Have you read the polls recently? On Saturday, underdogs […]

An interesting book review sent to me with a brief comment by a former classmate (NOT ‘old  classmate’) now living in Switzerland… Is he right? ‘ Some years ago a cousin in Derry told us a thug from up the street went into their corner shop, picked up a sandwich and walked out, eating it. When the lady owner protested she was told to “F- off”. They said most […]

Jeffrey Donaldson was born in 1962, Micheál Martin in 1960. Looking at them, Martin seems somehow older – another generation from Donaldson.  Maybe that’s because Micheál has considerably less hair on his head. But both are the same political age. Micheál became a full-time politician when he was elected to Cork Corporation in 1985; Jeffrey […]

AMERICAN BREXIT COMMITTEE 1919 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 1724 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 John M. Corcoran Esq, Chairman Michael J. Cummings, Secretary September 9, 2021 Mr. Mike Donilon Sr. Advisor to the President Executive Office of the President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, D. C. 20500 Dear Mr. Donilon: The American Brexit Committee consists […]

This TV review first appeared in The Andersonstown News I’d have put money on Kerry winning last Saturday’s All-Ireland Football semi-final (RTÉ TWO), only for two restraining features: the bookies were giving odds of 1-7 on a Kerry triumph, and I’m a Tyrone man. So it was with some nervousness I settled in front of my TV at the weekend.  This is going […]

1 2 3 4 5 6 ‘The Quiet Man’ was shot  in Cong, County Mayo the same year that Mayo last shot the lights out by winning the Sam Maguire Cup: 1951. Uncle Sam, simultaneously,  was busily engaged in catigating  the locals  in Korea as a criminal shower of Calbans .. Is there a portent […]