Author Jude Collins

My God – is it that time already? The Sunday Tribune has a photograph of Eamon Gilmore, the Labour Party leader in the south along with Maggie Ritchie, the SDLP leader in the north. Eamon is twisting his fingers like a man who finds himself somewhere but can’t think of an excuse to be elsewhere; […]

My God – is it that time already? The Sunday Tribune has a photograph of Eamon Gilmore, the Labour Party leader in the south along with Maggie Ritchie, the SDLP leader in the north. Eamon is twisting his fingers like a man who finds himself somewhere but can’t think of an excuse to be elsewhere; […]

Here – read this excerpt from an article in today’s Guardian newspaper and tell me what your immediate reaction is: ‘There is something deeply disturbing about the all-too-predictable manner with which one malicious accusation can destroy a priest’s reputation, career and ultimately his way of life…We live in a world where even informal hints of […]

Here – read this excerpt from an article in today’s Guardian newspaper and tell me what your immediate reaction is: ‘There is something deeply disturbing about the all-too-predictable manner with which one malicious accusation can destroy a priest’s reputation, career and ultimately his way of life…We live in a world where even informal hints of […]

Ed Moloney ( or ‘Maloney’, as that venerable organ The Irish News today calls him) is a funny man. Funny-peculiar, that is, not funny ha-ha. Ed’s consuming passion at the moment is to shift copies of his book ‘Voices from the Grave’. That’s understandable. You’ve worked long and hard on a book so of course […]

Ed Moloney ( or ‘Maloney’, as that venerable organ The Irish News today calls him) is a funny man. Funny-peculiar, that is, not funny ha-ha. Ed’s consuming passion at the moment is to shift copies of his book ‘Voices from the Grave’. That’s understandable. You’ve worked long and hard on a book so of course […]

Right – let’s nail the first big lie (well the first one I’ve noticed) in this election campaign. Let’s nail it nice and tight and permanent to the barn wall and then let’s throw buckets of cow-dung at it. The lie is that electoral pacts = sectarian head-counting. That was the excuse – or one […]

Right – let’s nail the first big lie (well the first one I’ve noticed) in this election campaign. Let’s nail it nice and tight and permanent to the barn wall and then let’s throw buckets of cow-dung at it. The lie is that electoral pacts = sectarian head-counting. That was the excuse – or one […]

Good news – I’ve heard from my old chum Noel Doran again. Noel, as you probably know, is not just the editor of that venerable organ The Irish News, he’s also one of my blog’s most faithful readers. This time he contacted me to point out that I was wrong, so wrong to suggest in […]

Good news – I’ve heard from my old chum Noel Doran again. Noel, as you probably know, is not just the editor of that venerable organ The Irish News, he’s also one of my blog’s most faithful readers. This time he contacted me to point out that I was wrong, so wrong to suggest in […]