Author Jude Collins

I’ve been asked to contribute…No, that’s a stupid word for it…asked to talk on the Stephen Nolan Show on BBC Radio Ulster tomorrow morning. They’re discussing the question of journalists protecting (another loaded word) their sources. The two people in the spotlight at the moment are Suzanne Breen the journalist and Ian Óg Paisley, the, […]

Cheesh – it’s almost like old times. A right-wing demagogue doing a Mussolini act before adoring disciples, people refusing to shake hands with other people, people turning their backs and booing their political opponents, lusty delivery of ‘God Save The Queen’…It all makes me feel about twenty years younger. And don’t tell me the press […]

Cheesh – it’s almost like old times. A right-wing demagogue doing a Mussolini act before adoring disciples, people refusing to shake hands with other people, people turning their backs and booing their political opponents, lusty delivery of ‘God Save The Queen’…It all makes me feel about twenty years younger. And don’t tell me the press […]

Two – no, three political dramas unfolding this weekend. In Britain, Gordon Brown is being savaged by his own party, who are shit-scared that they’re going to go down with him at the next election and are hoping against hope that maybe, somehow, someone else will mean there’ll be less Labour blood on the walls […]

Two – no, three political dramas unfolding this weekend. In Britain, Gordon Brown is being savaged by his own party, who are shit-scared that they’re going to go down with him at the next election and are hoping against hope that maybe, somehow, someone else will mean there’ll be less Labour blood on the walls […]

I’ve just realised the European election results won’t come in until Sunday night/Monday, which is a pain in the EU BUM, as I’d been looking forward to Friday and watching a series of politicians squirming as they try explain away d-e-f-e-a-t. Grotesque, but no more grotesque than some of the things being said in the […]

I’ve just realised the European election results won’t come in until Sunday night/Monday, which is a pain in the EU BUM, as I’d been looking forward to Friday and watching a series of politicians squirming as they try explain away d-e-f-e-a-t. Grotesque, but no more grotesque than some of the things being said in the […]

We had our final Irish class of the year last Tuesday. Since last September I’ve been travelling over to Ionad Uibh Eachach, off the Falls Road, with my friends Hugh and Dessie. They’re in their seventies, I’m in my sixties, and I’d like to think that our presence in the Beginners’ Class for Irish is […]

We had our final Irish class of the year last Tuesday. Since last September I’ve been travelling over to Ionad Uibh Eachach, off the Falls Road, with my friends Hugh and Dessie. They’re in their seventies, I’m in my sixties, and I’d like to think that our presence in the Beginners’ Class for Irish is […]