Author Jude Collins

    I found Lara Marlowe’s comments under the above heading (Aug 13) intriguing, and and not for the first time.Some years ago in the former Irish College in Paris, together with a Maynooth Professor who moonlighted at West Point, (where he appeared to have acquired his Moral Compass)she helped launch an attack on the […]

Broadcasting in Belfast and Dublin is experiencing some turbulence these days. Just when Ryan Tubridy thought it was save to settle behind a microphone again, his boss, the new Director-General of RTÉ, showed him the door. Ouch. In Belfast, on the other hand, tales of Stephen Nolan sending pics of naked and excited men to […]

                                You’d think it was deliberately co-ordinated. First Ryan Tubridy, the star at the top of the RTÉ tree, is outed as a man who was receiving under-the-counter payments.  Secret payments of some €345,000 were paid to him between 2017 and the present, and the licence-paying people of the south weren’t one bit amused. […]

  IAUC PRESS RELEASE: AUGUST 15, 2023  CONTACT:  PETER KISSEL, IAUC PRESIDENT (202) 262-4785, pckissel47@gmail.com   The Irish American Unity Conference has received an appalling letter from the British Government which lays bare the UK’s disdain for Irish America.  Lord Caine, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, writing “on behalf of the UK Government,” basically […]

  These days THE TIMES reprints some snippets from 100 years back.The above was reprinted on Saturday 29 July 2023.“The Hyde Park  demonstration was held simultaneously with gatherings in various parts of the country……the processions may come to have real influence in promoting international friendliness – the League of Nations Union, the National Peace Council, the Fellowship […]

  This morning, a large section of the Nolan Show was devoted to the Wolfe Tones’ Feile concert in West Belfast, and the fact that they sang along with the audience the words “Ooh, aah, up the ‘RA!”  Was Nolan right to say that this was to show contempt for IRA victims like Colin Parry’s […]

    July 15De Valera “Saw de Valera at his hotel in the afternoon. A whole bevy of people in the sitting-room, through which Childers showed me to the bedroom, where the great man afterwards appeared. After greetings I remarked that I fancied he had a little quarrel with me for something in the Manchester Guardian […]

The head of the Royal Black Institution has called on the UK government to “free us from the tyranny of persecution we are suffering” as he addressed issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol during his address on Saturday afternoon, August 5 in the village of Tempo. Sovereign Grand Master Rev. William Anderson was speaking at […]

‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.’ Simon Byrne, Chief Constable of the PSNI must feeling that, as he struggles to make sense of the leakage of details regarding his police force/service. Already republican dissidents say they have details of over 10,000 people working in the PSNI – including some undercover agents. Should Byrne […]

    Recently, I attended a meeting of the newly formed Erne Catchment area. This is what I learned.   Some 280,000 tonnes of untreated waste are discharged into Upper and Lower Lough Erne on an annual basis, much of it through unmapped pipe work.   The Lough Erne Trust is not functioning as it […]