Jude Collins

If you’re a supporter of the SDLP, you may be conducting a victory dance around your living room at the news that Mairia Cahill has joined the party. If you are not a supporter of the SDLP or are in fact critical of that party, you may be conducting a victory dance around your living […]

Prof Brendan O’Leary spoke at the Feile today, and talked about the shrinking of the unionist vote,and how it’s tied to age -most of their supporters are older, younger Protestants are looking for something more, and are eager to hear the case for a united Ireland. Is the. Prod in the garden centre again a […]

A cynic, they say, is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. At which point welcome Infantino (don’t know his first name) who is eager to privatize the World Cup, and has promised untold wealth to those countries who …play ball with him. Is he selling out football? Or has […]

If you are a Catholic – and maybe even if you’re not – you’re probably pleased to hear that Andy Burnham is a Catholic who, apparently, takes his Catholicism seriously. He may not attend Mass every Sunday but as everyone except right-wing recidivist Catholics know, attending Mass every Sunday  says practically nothing about the quality […]

At this moment, Zak Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, is under severe pressure. That’s because he reposted an Instagram post showing a chap wearing a t-shirt standing beside a guillotine with the words “We’re only making plans for Nigel”. While you’re still reeling from the monstrosity of this news, let me tell you […]

What can I say? What can you say?What can we say?  Despite being married to a Mayo woman I have never felt any great affinity to Mayo GAA footballers. But yesterday – have you ever experienced a sporting high to match it? Thank God  Trump wasn’t around – he’d have been elbowing in to be […]

  DAVY Adams, former loyalist paramilitary,  has an Irish Times piece today,where he says there’s a bias against Protestants in the South,and cites Heather Humphries who he says got awful sectarian abuse. He figures only when people have  learnt to reconcile with each other should there be a united Ireland referendum. You think,Davy?   Gordon […]

‘This is the most egregious use of data I have seen in my entire clinical life’ – former WHSCT Consultant The veracity of Western Trust claims regarding outcomes for patients in Derry’s Altnagelvin Hospital requiring emergency general surgery (EGS) is being challenged. There are also concerns about the level of over-inference or optimism it is […]

Usually reliable sources tell us that Andy Burnham’s Catholic faith is very important to him. I’m glad to hear that,  because he is now Prime Minister of an absurdly divided country. I don’t mean by that that Scotland and NEI – and Wales – would quit the Union if they could. Brexitland, to put it […]

So – how was it for you? No,  not that – the World Cup, I mean. There were some wonderful games, some terrific skill and team work, some dirty hacking (yes, I’m looking at you, Argentina) and the final game was beyond hopeless , the only thing worse was  the half-time ‘entertainment’ (which Wayne Rooney […]