Author Jude Collins

 Last night was a lively night in Derry’s Guildhall. Once the bastion of unionism in Derry, last night it was the McArt bastion, as Pat launched his book to a hall lan go doras – full to the door. I’d like to feel a reflection of the success, but McArt is keeping it ALL TO […]

  Call it what you will, a truce, a humanitarian ceasefire, a pause , in reality it is a defeat for the Zionist apartheid regime.   After nearly 50 days of laying waste to the civilian infrastructure and civilian lives in Gaza , through a campaign of indiscriminate carpet bombing of civilian residential areas  , […]

                    I suppose when you find yourself up a very smelly creek, you take assistance from anyone willing to give it to you.  And so no doubt Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is doing little somersaults and hand-stands of celebration when word came through that former Home Secretary Priti Patel has denounced the EU […]

                                        What is Israel trying to do? Apart from commit war crimes and engage in genocide in Gaza? They have pounced on a sentence by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Emily Hand, where he referred to the relief that young Emily was ‘lost and now is found’.  Israel’s foreign minister Eli Cohen claims Leo […]

        Did an Israeli invent the word ‘chutzpah’? It means a brass neck, and judging by Israel’s actions in chastising Spain, Belgium and Ireland for speaking out against the horrible slaughter being inflicted on Gaza, it’s a word they are fond of. The world is agreed these are war crime – but […]

“The special Trades Union Congress held at the Central Hall, Westminster, yesterday, decided by a card vote of 2,760,000 to 1,636,000 to demand the withdrawal of all British troops from Ireland and the cessation of the production of munitions destined for  Ireland and Russia. In case the Government refuses these demands the Congress is to […]

  Just when you thought nothing could eclipse Gaza as a news item, along came yesterday, and the stabbing of several children and an adult outside a school, in broad daylight. “Was that the moment that Ireland lost its innocence?” was a question I heard being asked about the stabbing and the riots that evening […]

              You’d think nothing could knock Gaza from the main news item, but both RTÉ and BBC led their main evening news with the situation on the streets of Dublin. Was this an ‘existential threat to democracy’ or a nasty, cruel act which shouldn’t be inflated into a national crisis? Discuss. Or rather, we’ll discuss […]

  You’re probably aware that the former DUP leader Peter Robinson has a book out titled Witty put-downs and Clever Insults. He tells the reader not to be dismayed if they’re currently not quite as sparkling as a  latter-day Oscar Wilde. “It’s a craft that can be honed with the right guidance and ample practice.”  […]

  From 1948 to 1957 I travelled on the Hill of Howth tram from Baker’s Lane to Howth Railway Station and walked from there a further mile to St Fintan’s Christian Brothers’ School on the Burrow Road in Sutton. The route was on the north side of the Howth Peninsula with views of Ireland’ Eye […]