Author Jude Collins

  The excuse from the UK, America and the EU backing Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel was and continues to be, self-defence.  The right of a nation, country or state to use, more often than not, physical force in a bid to defend its people and its borders from an […]

It’s just possible you’ve noticed how the airwaves and media generally have been dominated by events in the Middle East. So can Hamas’s actions in Israel be justified? How about the reporting of the situation – has it been truthful about the context of events as well as the events themselves? And why are the […]

   One of many dark memories from my adolescence is the teacher who would demand to know who had written on the board/been talking/made that rude noise.  When the culprit didn’t own up, the teacher would say “Very well – the entire class will be punished” and he’d take out his strap and go to […]

                  It can be frustrating when people won’t stay in the little box they have been assigned to. When Martin McGuinness became Minister for Education in the newly-created Stormont Assembly, there was a gasp of disbelief throughout the chamber. When McGuinness went on to work with and create a friendship with Ian Paisley, […]

  I think it was Tony Hancock who asked whether Magna Carta had died in vain.   It seems that Leo Varadkar is truly smitten with her.   Never mind that her key benefit, Habeas Corpus, has been suspended, as often as Irishmen have been, by their necks, for the wearin’ of the green since […]

  An outdoor prison, totally at the mercy of one of the world’s worst human rights violators, a human rights violator which at this very moment has shut down electricity, water, gas, and supplies into an area less than half the size of Louth but in which 2.3 million people reside due to being displaced […]

MICHAEL J. CUMMINGS 201 W EVERGREEN AVE, APT. 715 CHESTNUT HILL, PENNSYLVANIA 19118 October 9, 2023   Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro once claimed the Bard   was given that honorific title   because “…he comes from an ancient Irish tradition of semi-mystical poets who were able to see the future and glimpse worlds unseen to ordinary mortals.”  […]

    One thing that is unavoidable in the Middle East violence is the role of  Hamas. Israel, naturally, emphasises the cruelty and destruction of Hamas, and laments  the taking  of hostages by Hamas. There is of course another side: the thinking of Hamas.I don’t mean their shrewdness in somehow overcoming Israeli intelligence, who over […]

    For 75 years since the creation of the Israeli state in 1948 Palestinians have been the target of pogroms,massacres,mass expulsions , extra judicial murders and ethnic cleansing.   The theory of a land without a people for a people without a land was the rallying cry for Jewish immigration to Palestine from 1902 […]

   During the Troubles, there were politicians and pundits who liked to use the dead. They would, figuratively speaking, stand on the coffin of someone killed in conflict and denounce those involved in the killing. There would have been many other killings happening, but only those most convenient as platforms were used to denounce the […]