Author Jude Collins

In a Sunday paper today, the one owned by Denis O’Brien, a regular contributor from Cork, Eoghan Harris writes: “But since Arlene Foster and Gerry Adams between them have forced the united Ireland nonsense back on the agenda we have to ask ourselves three questions.” This seriously deluded man, Harris, declares that it was Arlene Foster […]

As someone who grew up near the border, I certainly remember the custom officers standing at their little tin hut in Pettigo just after you crossed the bridge into the republic. The hut is still there and it won’t be long till the customs men and maybe women are back checking goods going into the […]

I was accused the other day of having lost the run of myself, which I suppose is accurate enough, given that I’ve at present got a broken foot. It’s a good expression, “the run of yourself”. Discussing the phrase a few years’ ago, Frank McNally in The Irish Times gave the following as an example […]

I am just going to be honest, I don’t think there is a single party in Ireland who has the competence or capability to actually implement the unification of this country. I believe government in Ireland is plagued with corruption, has an unhealthy relationship with the media and is so rife with incompetence that it […]

Some of you may have read the article written by one Jessica McGrann concerning her opinion on what she thinks Sinn Fein should stand for. As flawed as it is grammatically, the economic side of things is no pleasantry either, of which more later. It flowed from a written “battle of ideas” on what Irish […]

I was recently asked by someone on this blog site if I even understood what Sinn Fein stands for. As usual, that gets me thinking and I would have to say no, I possibly don’t. I had a look at their website and I would like to discuss a few areas of relevance to our […]

I watched a TV report recently on how Protestants living along the border area view the notion of a border poll. One man, whose farm straddles the north and the south, said he thought the border should be done away with – and have all of Ireland within the UK. As for himself, he’d vote […]

Pics 1-4 are by Perkin Warbeck           Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4  (A man of few words, Perkin merely tells us  “CÉAD MÍLE MALTA”)   Pics 5-7 are by John Patton ( http://www.phototilly.eu ) Pic 5 Pic 6 Pic 7   “BASS ROCK GANNET COLONY Gannets are large, white seabirds with […]

The  day that’s been innit I’ve been checking out GOOGLE TRANSLATE from the Irish into Sacs-Beurla (the Twitter/Jargon of the Saxons).   Beidh Eire fos ag Cait ni Dhuibhir               = Ah cats will still not load Dwyer. Pog mo thon                     […]

How much of our thinking is wishful? Quite a bit, I suspect.  We produce a model of how we would like things to be and then we gather together signs and portents that will point to that view. For example, The Irish Voice,  an American-Irish newspaper, had an editorial yesterday with the heading “A `United Ireland […]