Author Jude Collins

In case you haven’t heard, John Finucane MP is heading to Mullaghbawn in Armagh as key speaker at the ‘South Armagh Volunteers Commemoration’.  If you haven’t heard, at this point you’re possibly the only person on this entire island of Ireland that doesn’t know.  It’s been all over the media, both printed and digital, and […]

  To look at him, you wouldn’t think Micheál Martin was a wildly interesting person. I say that because in today’s vlog/podcast we get caught up in the Dublin government and their attitude to the North. I wonder could he be a Sinn Féin mole? As Pat says, every time he opens his mouth,  he […]

  Fr Des Wilson, who taught for almost 20 years in St Malachy’s College, used to tell a story about a student in St Malachy’s –in the 1950s. By all accounts, he was a serious student interested in Latin and Greek. Anyway, one day on his way home from University he was stopped and searched […]

THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY – Part 1 By Donal Kennedy                   From THE SUNDAY TIMES Culture Section 4 JUNE 2023:-   “Great Coastal Railway Journeys (BBC 2, 3.30 pm Monday 5 June   Michael Portillo journeys to Derry/Londonderry and makes an admission. At 18, on an exchange […]

  Note: In this blog I originally said the workmen were coming from a British army base. That was inaccurate – I had in mind the Teebane killings. I’ve removed the inaccurate item  – and thanks again to Colmain…   Stephen Nolan’s radio show this morning is dipping both arms up to the elbow in […]

    In recent days, there have been voices raised, suggesting that Ian Paisley Jr might have ambitions to replace Jeffrey Donaldson as leader of the DUP. Instead of listing reasons why this might be so, let’s go a bit mad and think instead of things he would never do. Ian Óg would never exclude […]

  The letter below was published in the Tablet (An English Catholic magazine) 27th May 2023. The Tablet has never before published any letters that I sent them. They have often published articles and letters sympathetic to the British government.  A recent example was an article by that well known authority on Irish politics, Malachi […]

       Pat and Jude’s talk this morning had me cast my eyes on other days.   I must be one of the few people who can remember seeing Tipperary beat Dublin by one miserable point in the All Ireland Senior Hurling Final in Croke Park in 1961, the very last year Dublin qualified […]

AS May turns to June, the Twelfth of July looms. The BBC has stopped giving live coverage to the marches, but GB News has said it’s interested. This of course has nothing to do with how right-wing GB News is. Or have I got that wrong? Donna Traynor, the former BBC news reader, was given […]

                  John Alderdice, Former leader of the Alliance Party in NEI came out with quite the statement earlier this week (for an Alliance man) – “The English public’s attitude to Northern Ireland has changed profoundly over the past quarter of a century and there is now no […]