Author Jude Collins

Facebook, we’re told, is planning to create  10,000 new jobs in Europe over the next five years – and no doubt the south of Ireland will get its share. But they’re also working on a Metaverse – a virtual world which will increasingly be the way in which people interact with each other. Is that […]

                           Sean Ó Riada was a great man for reading, his son tells us on NATIONWIDE (RTÉ ONE). He would go “to the jacks” and sit there for an hour, just him and a book. He did his composing at night when the children were in bed.  He never used the piano or a musical […]

THE MURDER  BY BOMB OF A DUBLIN BUS CONDUCTOR AND A DRIVER IN DUBLIN’S SACKVILLE PLACE DUBLIN IN DECEMBER !972 never seem to have impacted on Fintan O’Toole, whose father was a Dublin bus conductor. The  bomb persuaded Fine Gael to drop opposition to Jack Lynch’s strengthening the Offences Against the State Act an hour or two later…At […]

This blog originally appeared as a column in the Andersonstown News Sensible politicians and pundits regularly scold us for being fixated on flags and emblems, even (God bless the mark!) on a border poll.  It would be better, they tell us, if were to focus on  ‘bread-and-butter’ issues (cue John Hume’s father telling his wide-eyed son that he couldn’t eat a flag). So what is […]

A British General on capturing an Indian city is reputed to have sent a simple telegram – “Peccavi” which was decoded a “I Have Synd.” It  was a joke which will have been appreciated by most of my Irish and billions of other Christians who attended Sunday Mass. Anyway,I confess that I have erred – […]

  (Contd) Total Tool Time (3). ‘In a weird coincidence, the same seventeenth  floor of the Grand Cypress, Orlando, Florida was occupied at the same time by the great icons of a new form of global Irishness, the rock band U2. They were about to launch in Florida what could become to be regarded as […]

“A part of the compact under which Redmond was elected to the chair limited the power of the newly chosen. He was to be a Chairman, not a leader. That is to say, he was not to act, except after consultation with the party as a whole: he was not to commit them upon policy. […]

Are you familiar with Professor Kathleen Stock? She teaches at the University of Sussex and has recently published a book in which she questions the notion that gender identity is more “socially significant” than biological sex. That’s when the roof fell in on her. An anonymous campaign was mounted at the university, accusing her of […]

Both Doug Beattie, the leader of the UUP and Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the DUP, have refused to say they’d take the role of Deputy First Minister if Sinn Féin emerged as the largest party next May and became First Minister. Is this just business as usual or should we be worried? Both Dominic Cummings […]

Source: Al Mayadeen Net  The promotion of a warmonger like Clinton to a seat of learning must surely be, at the very least, controversial, and at the very most a shameful act of denial of power abuse that she, her husband, and the corporate imperialist American political system represent. A protest of 50 people organized […]