Author Jude Collins

  Just when you thought nothing could eclipse Gaza as a news item, along came yesterday, and the stabbing of several children and an adult outside a school, in broad daylight. “Was that the moment that Ireland lost its innocence?” was a question I heard being asked about the stabbing and the riots that evening […]

              You’d think nothing could knock Gaza from the main news item, but both RTÉ and BBC led their main evening news with the situation on the streets of Dublin. Was this an ‘existential threat to democracy’ or a nasty, cruel act which shouldn’t be inflated into a national crisis? Discuss. Or rather, we’ll discuss […]

  You’re probably aware that the former DUP leader Peter Robinson has a book out titled Witty put-downs and Clever Insults. He tells the reader not to be dismayed if they’re currently not quite as sparkling as a  latter-day Oscar Wilde. “It’s a craft that can be honed with the right guidance and ample practice.”  […]

  From 1948 to 1957 I travelled on the Hill of Howth tram from Baker’s Lane to Howth Railway Station and walked from there a further mile to St Fintan’s Christian Brothers’ School on the Burrow Road in Sutton. The route was on the north side of the Howth Peninsula with views of Ireland’ Eye […]

Leo Varadkar yesterday said that the thought of Sinn Féin  TDs in charge of Justice, Defence or Foreign Affairs was ‘repugnant’ to him,  that Sinn Féin still defended war crimes from the Troubles. Why did he say that, I wonder? In fact, both Pat and I wonder. Has Israel convinced you that there was/is a […]

  What do you think of Jacob Rees-Mogg? Yes, I used to think that way about him too – like he’d escaped from the pages of a comic, where he’d been Lord Snooty’s right-hand-man. A Tory, but basically harmless. I mean, how could you feel anything but amusement at someone who called the sixth of […]

Remarks Addressing Emergency Motion on Palestine. Sinn Féin Ard Fheis 2023   In 1998 our peace settlement created new horizons for future generations.   Five years previously the Oslo Accords were agreed.   For the first time since 1948 Palestinians had some hope.   Immediately, successive Israeli governments started to undermine the negotiated 2 state solution.   Today in Palestine there is no […]

    Just imagine for a moment what a post-nuclear apocalyptic holocaust might look like.     A destroyed landscape.   People wandering the streets, in a state of traumatic shock.   No shelter, no clean water, no food.   Just the clothes on their backs and the shoes on their feet.   Distraught children […]

I’ve just been rereading  BLOGS   including THE MORAL COMPASS OF GORDON BROWN                                             (July 8 2019)                 IS GORDON BROWN  HUMBUG ?            […]

  I think it was 2008 when I first became aware of Douglas Kear Murray, then aged 29.   The Sunday Times reported that he had written a play about Raoul Wallenberg, a heroic Swede who had negotiated the safety of thousands of Jews in Hungary who would otherwise have been murdered by the NAZI […]