Author Jude Collins

As I write this, my brother is in Altnagelvin Hospital, seriously ill. When I tell people that he is approaching his ninetieth birthday, they shrug their shoulders literally or metaphorically. If you’re ninety, well,  you’ve had a good innings, you should be ready to lay your burden down.   Speaking as another old man myself, […]

PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT A RACIST PHILANTHROPIST, SHAY GIVEN &THE H WORD, & TRUMP IS’ ‘LOCKED &LOADED’   A generous donor recently offered Letterkenny Youth and Family Service “a sizeable sum” providing the service used it for Irish people. Have a look at our video and discover what the LYFS did and whether they should have […]

With Trump plodding, standing, jumping on human rights throughout the world, it’s difficult to know if local concerns matter. They seem sideshows to world events. But it’s worth checking out a  few. 1. Casement Park. With the state of world events, matters like football pitches seem irrelevant, local, too small to deserve attention. But we […]

PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT TRUMP THE KIDNAPPER, WHAT CHINA WILL DO WITH TAIWAN, MAN UTD & SACKING MANAGERS   So – Donald Trump has moved to a new stage where, if he doesn’t like the way another country is working – especially a South American country – he can simply kidnap him AND his wife, and […]

Have you watched this video where Trump laments the fact that the US should have ‘kept the oil’ when it invaded Iraq? It’s worth watching.  Meantime, why do you suppose he killed over 90 Venezuelans in boats? He claimed they were carrying drugs but has offered no proof. And, of course, summary execution is not […]

I had my twice-weekly chat with Pat McArt earlier today, and we somehow landed on a topic I hadn’t thought about before. It  sprang from an article by Denis Bradley in The Irish News  (the newspaper that once loved me but it’s all over now). He was talking about the search for truth about what happened […]

Ireland isn’t exactly a world power, but it does carry one magic talent – soft power. St Patrick’s Dau and the world turned green is one example. The Department of Foreign Affairs is pushing Bloomsday  and St Brigid’s Day and other dates and occasions. Maybe they even have a soft spot fo Kneecap? Is it […]

With government files from back in the day spilling out, some are of more interest than others. Some are a bit daft, like the Irish government’s concern that Freddie Scappaticci  might commit suicide. You mean, like Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide? Mmm. Others are more interesting. Bobby Storey for one. The UK files indicate that British […]

  There are some within unionism who are prepared to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Irish reunification and there are some who have embraced the native Irish language. These are open-minded people who are not stuck in the past.   The extreme Unionist Royalists in Ireland -as in Britain-support a pre-democratic British state and […]

      Those wise people among you who catch PAT+JUDE on Youtube will probably be aware that I have a thing about Áras an Uachtráin. It has 92 rooms. Even if the President brought an enormous family – say 18 kids – with him or her, there’d still be a lot of unused rooms. […]