Jude Collins

THE TOPSYTURVY WORLD OF URSULA VON DER LAYEN by Donal Kennedy                   It has been decreed by Ms Von Der Layen and apparently engraved on tablets by European Union Governments that the Soviet Union and the Third Reich were the joint instigators of the Second World War. […]

      Something has been stirring within the less hardline grassroots of Unionism over the past weeks which has caused concern to the more hardline Unionists out there and indeed Unionist politicians who took the hardest line possible on the Protocol and Brexit.  The realisation that at some point in the near future Unionism […]

So tell me this. Do you think Mary Lou McDonald was for real when she said she foresaw a border poll within this decade (presumably by 2030)? Or is it as Newton Emerson , the Irish Times’s own limp and official unionist columnist claims, that Sinn Féin are steering clear of the border and emphasising […]

Well now – another beautiful early summer day – isn’t it good to be alive? And you can become even more alive by viewing myself and Pat. This Friday we discuss Stephen Collins, who thinks a lot loony lefties are setting the agenda on Irish neutrality. Then there’s the question of (southern) Irish neutrality – […]

I’m not quite sure why I resisted viewing Katie Hannon Upfront on RTÉ for so long. Perhaps it was because Katie H had been around for some time and wasn’t the fresh face I expected to succeed The Claire Byrne Show. It may have been because its format was almost identical to Byrne’s :  a […]

    I nearly crashed my car this afternoon but I have only my own naivety to blame for it.  When I started the car the radio was on Raidio Uladh/Radio Ulster’s Talkback and Crawley was giving people an opportunity to say what they understood by the word ‘majority’ in the Good Friday Agreement. Ian […]

  In the wake of the local election results it has become clear that Sinn Féin and Alliance – albeit to a lesser extent – are two parties in ascendancy. Some Unionist commentators have suggested that this election is a poor gauge in determining support for Irish reunification as it was more to do with […]

                  Are these past council election results enough evidence for the detractors that a border poll is inevitable? Sadly we’ll see in due course (as we always do) that it isn’t but what we do see now is why the DUP have been pushing hard for a […]

What are Pat and I talking about today? Oh come on – you know what we’ll be talking about – the local elections in the north. In many ways it was the reaction of different groups to the election results that were interesting. Take the DUP – yup, we do look at their response. And […]

  Eamon de Valera once declared that he was not a doctrinaire republican. He was described as a firebrand by Britain’s Anthony Eden, when in Geneva at the League of Nations he demanded that all nations there honour its Covenant and apply effective sanctions against fascist Italy for its attack on Abyssinia. Mussolini, dubbed a […]