Author Jude Collins

Imagine a very sharp-posted picket fence. Now imagine a very fat man sitting on that fence.  You should at this point have a fairly good idea of how the DUP are feeling. “We had to do something to show our displeasure”  Sammy Wilson told the BBC’s Newsnight. What was that something? His party had abstained from […]

PART 1: who WAS –   Trygve Lie  ?   George Marshall   ?   Ernest Bevin ?   William Lyon  Mackenzie King  ?   Robert Schumann  ?   Paul Henri Spaak   Andrey Vyshinsky ?   The Widow Serot ?   PART 2 Why –   Why were they gathered together at Orly Airport, Paris, […]

                                                                               Backstop. Meaning the baseball term to do with the camouflagic 310 mile long British border on […]

So. The Derry Journal and The News Letter are both as of this moment in receivership. Not to mention a number of weekly newspapers. And then there’s The Scotsman and The Yorkshire Post. Johnson Press, the group that owns these newspapers, put itself up for sale a short time back and had no takers. So […]

  Letter in The Irish Times   28 December 2005 1916 Rising and the First World War Madam Kevin Myers is to be thanked for bringing to our attention the fact that 800 men from Co. Louth died in the 1914-1918 War (An Irishman’s Diary, December 20th). Louth is only  one of 32 counties, and not […]

The man or the moment – or the woman or the moment, for that matter? Which is it? Is it the talent and strength of character of the individual political leader who bends events into the shape and direction they have chosen, or is it that the time for these events has come, and the […]

  The implosion of the Soviet Union and the end of the Warsaw Pact was a time of opportunity and opportunists. Quick off the mark was a one Fukuyama, who wrote “The End of History” a runaway bestseller. Communism and Socialism were dead.  Neo-liberalism,  once known as Manchester-Liberalism was now enthroned and would reign  forever. Those over […]

The indicators against a hard Brexit are becoming more obvious by the day. Here in our Tormented Green Corner (TGC) the Ulster Farmers Union and the business community have made it clear they want the deal Theresa May has cobbled together. Are they right? Because it can be argued that predictions of Brexit disaster may […]

   “The Month of November used be one of solemn Remembrance in Ireland. For Dublin Brigade Volunteer and Medical Student Kevin Barry, hanged by the British in 1920.  For Tipperary footballer  Michael Hogan and twelve spectators killed at Croke Park by British rifle fire. For Brigadier Dick McKee, Vice-Brigadier Peadar Clancy and the civilian Conor […]