Author Jude Collins

  Did any part of you feel positive about the Hamas onslaught against Israel? Is it pure terrorism, or people who’ve been punched in the face repeatedly suddenly punching back?   The commentator Kevin Meagher thinks the DUP boycott of Stormont is a tactic in search of a strategy. Is he right? The DUP are […]

                  Bonie and Clyde were apprehended by the forces of law and order in the act of robbing a bank during which several bank employees were seriously injured. Bonnie had a loving family who hired a wise-guy attorney to represent her. After discussing the case with her […]

When I take down my well-thumbed dictionary and turn to ‘Hypothetical’, I find it’s something based on possible ideas or situations rather than actual ones. Like, if I came home drunk as a skunk and singing loudly, the present Mrs C would very likely lock the door and shout some home truths from an upper […]

    How is it that even when RTÉ gets it right, they get it wrong? The latest pulverising example of it occurred on ‘UPFRONT With Katie Hannon’  (who dreams up these daft titles, btw, and does RTÉ actually pay to have them?) A number of topics were dealt with, but easily the most fascinating […]

    Age gradually corrupts our sense of time and environment. Asked to recall my memories of Craobh Sheáin Uí Dhubhlain, I have struggled to re-assemble the people and the place,   some sixty years or so later. In mentioning names here, I risk omitting some and unintentionally causing offence to their memory and/or the extant […]

  They’ve put a gag on Trump. Before you start doing handstands around the room, I should add that it’s a gag to stop him from launching attacks on social media. Trump in so many words has called the staff people totally opposed to him.Justice Arthur Engoron has told Trump’s lawyers that any further attacks […]

    Sooner or later it had to happen. From the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and earlier, working-class loyalism began to see that Ian Paisley’s DUP had nothing to offer them, other than the role of poll-fodder every so often. The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) was formed and high hopes attached […]

  So can we believe the British Secretary of State – are the DUP about to slink back into Stormont? After all, the green lanes and the red lanes are now active for trade from GB – Sir Jeff going with his begging bowl and saying ‘Please sir, I want more’ looks like it’s a […]

  Northern Irish Unionism can blame no one but itself for the predicament it is in at this very moment.  It wasn’t involved nearly as much in the Windsor Framework negotiations clearly due to the fact that when the DUP was in a king-maker role in Westminster during the Protocol negotiations, it exerted so much […]

They’re using heroin in Scotland – only this time it’s legal. A medical area has been set up, where users can legally take their fix. Is providing fix facilities the best route to dealing with this problem? By now you’ve probably heard about that sycamore tree that has stood in a gap at Adrian’s Wall […]