Author Jude Collins

Michael D Higgins has criticised the neutrality conference that’s being held at present, and the woman who is its chairperson –  he believes the seats are too inclined away from neutrality. He also criticised the chairperson, on the grounds that she was a Dame of the British Empire (DBE). He’s since apologised for these ‘off-the-cuff’ […]

Wednesday, 21 June 2023 at 21:28:59 BST Subject         Dear Sir,   On June 1942 Adolf Hitler visited Finland to congratulate the Commander  in Chief of that country’s Armed Forces, Field Marshal Carl Gustav Von Mannerheim on his 75th Birthday.   Hitler’s address was recorded. It is unique because it is the […]

When history looks back – assuming that history can look and that we’ve not trashed the world to the point of extinction – it will surely look with amazement at our world and wonder at the things that happened side-by-side. We have a prime example at the moment: as I type this, the lives of […]

                            I don’t always agree with President Michael D Higgins – I’ve an  aversion to people who get elected saying they’ll do one thing (In Michael D’s case that he’d serve just one term as President) and then do something else (Michael D is approaching the end of his second term).  But […]

  “Paramount among the responsibilties of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of government from   deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell ” –     United States Supreme Court Judge when the Court by a 6 to […]

        On the centenary of the 1916 Rising a contributor to the IRISH TIMES “Rite and Reason” slot assured its readers that Daniel O’Connell never shot any man.   Two hundred and one years earlier, in February 1815, Daniel O’Connell famously shot dead John D’Esterre in a public duel.  The  Catholics’ political […]

      President Michael D Higgins has said that the south of Ireland is drifting dangerously towards NATO. Micheál Martin has said the President shouldn’t intervene in politics. Is he right?  Is it possible to be neutral? Should Ireland do something radically different?   The gardaí in the south are unarmed and proud of […]

.       I’ve lived in Loyalist towns almost my entire life.  From Carrickfergus to Larne to Ballymena and I’ve driven the length and breadth of Ireland and the length and breadth of NEI now as part of my job.  I travel through towns and villages every day in this lovely land of ours, […]

Boris Johnson – what a guy, eh?  The man who said there were no Downing Street parties, despite the photographs of him with a drink in his hand and the table littered with bottles. The man who thought nothing of misleading the inquiry into his conduct as well as Parliament. Now  he’s gone from politics, […]

                  At this point, I’m surprised any Unionist MP, MLA, Councillor or indeed Loyalist hanger-on would dare to criticise the Irish language community or those who want the Irish language included in our lives for forcing their culture down Unionist gullets.  It’s simply not true. We consistently […]