Author Jude Collins

      About thirty years ago my wife and I visited Rome for the first time.In those days hotels were beyond our budget and we carried a tent in our car which we put on a train which took us as far as Bologna. We took a wrong turning which took us to Lake […]

  The DUP have gone into a huddle today – the Twelve Apostles, as they’re referred to, are facing up to the fact that it’s make or break time. So will Sir Jeff take the money (£3.3 billion) from our Proconsul Heaton-Harris  and forget about the seven crucial matters that had to be addressed before […]

  When Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew uttered those words the Berlin Wall had fallen, the Soviet Union which had liberated most of Europe from Nazi and Fascist tyranny had withdrawn its forces to within Russia and then had ceased to exist, the US had withdrawn from Greenham Common and the Apartheid Regime in South […]

It’s been remarked to me that some readers will doubt my credibility unless i can back them up with irrefutable proof.   A fair point. The  Royal Society in London, founded in 1660 on the restoration of the Stuart Monarchy, in imitation of a similar body in Paris, had a motto, the gist of which […]

Today I talk to Danny Boyle (no, not the movie man) who is from Castlederg in County Tyrone but comes originally – like myself – from the town of Omagh. Danny has an interest in things political and things sporting, so we talk first about Sir Jeffrey and the DUP, and whether Sir Jeff is […]

    In 1949, in a pointless exercise, Taoiseach John A. Costello stuck the label “Republic” on the republic established by the electorate (on the guidance of Eamon De Valera) over a decade earlier.   British Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook prepared a Memorandum dismissing Ulster Unionist arguments for the continued Partition of Ireland, ending […]

     South Africa has taken its case against Israel under Article 9 of the Genocide Convention. Israel has  rejected  SA’s case, claiming it’s concerned solely with self-defence.   One has to salute SA for bringing the case. For decades it was a country that suffered appallingly at the hands of white S Africa while […]

                    The title is from a pamphlet published by the British National Council for Civil  Liberties written by Tony Gifford, a Labour Peer, and a Queen’s Counsel.   Few readers here will have read it and a generation and a third were born since it was […]

South Africa, as everyone knows, has taken a charge of genocide against Israel to the UN. Many nations, watching their TVs, agree completely – but how closely will they support South Africa?  And why did the Dublin government not weigh in there? A major study has found that drug consumption rooms could save thousands of […]

  Those of you who have bothered to watch “Howth Regatta and Lambay Races, 1942 ” and “Once Upon a Tram”  shot in 1959 may be disappointed that they failed to substantiate the Misery Memoirs of professional,that is mercenary writers.   I am interested in history but a mere amateur and what I write I […]