Author Jude Collins

How sleepy (or alert) did Joe Biden seem during his State of the Union address yesterday? Will he be able to withstand the Trump voters in November? Right now Trump is well ahead in the polls. And what kind of person is a Trump voter? It’s not as if Trump were a novelty. But poorer, […]

As a practising Catholic I try to pay attention to public utterances by the clergy of the Catholic Church. So when Father Brendan Hoban published a column in The Western People I made a point of reading it. It’s titled ‘Sorry is still the hardest word for Sinn Féin’, No smudged on-the-one-hand-on-the-other here. For Father […]

I’ve just listened to a group of…worthies on Raidio Uladh discussing the BBC Four programme from last night. Naturally, they focused on the part that dealt with the BBC here in the 1960s, and how the British public were kept in the dark about the discrimination, gerrymandering and plain old sectarianism that prevailed at the […]

  Professor Jon Tonge has conducted a survey in the Alliance Party and has found that the number of  Alliance members favourably disposed towards a united Ireland is much increased. What are the ramifications of that, if any? BBC FOUR put out a programme last night noting how difficult BBC NI made it for any […]

  THE IRISH TIMES claims a record of “Trusted Journalism since 1859” the year of its foundation.   I’ve checked the word “TRUST” in various dictionaries which I have learned to trust. Used as a NOUN it can mean -“firm belief in the reliability, or strength of a person or thing, a confident expectation,  a […]

I was talking to a man today about Casement Park, and he raised a point I simply hadn’t thought of: how will car parking work on match days? He said Casement Park makes sense but probably would work better on another site. I think we’d all agree with that, sort of. The original agreement was […]

    800 years the Irish have fought a genocidal British occupation .   Eight centuries of ethnic cleansing,land clearances,massacres,starvation,colonisation and a brutal military oppression.   Sucessive generations of Irish men and women ,boys and girls have fought clandestinely and openly to liberate Ireland from foreign imperialist control. Ireland was Britains first conquest. The British […]

    Just as the Listowel, County Kerry born Herbert Kitchener did wonders for Imperialism as a super Recruiting Sergeant, Frank Kitson (whose place of birth is unrecorded in Obituaries) was an outstanding Recruiting Sergeant for Republicanism. Kitson died,aged 97, on January 2nd this year He was the Grisly Eminence who co- ordinated the Parachute Regiment, the […]

    In 1945 at the end of the war in Europe, the fruit of British intrigue and incompetence, Winston Churchill unleashed a bilious attack on Ireland’s refusal to repeat John Redmond’s disastrous 1914 marching to the beat of a British drum. Churchill singled out Irish people,such as Brendan Finucane, who marched or flew to […]

As all of us have known for quite some time, Palestinians in Gaza are being killed by the thousand – mainly by Israeli shelling but now by hunger. Children in Gaza are literally starving to death. So when a few truckloads of food were allowed in, there naturally was a stampede to get at that […]