Author Jude Collins

  So Israel has come up with a new wheeze. Rather than keep over two million Gazans in an area smaller than County Louth, the smallest county in Ireland, and the world’s biggest out-door prison, from which Hamas attempted a jail break on October 7 2023, it’s now being proposed that all Gazans will be […]

  “As the midday sun shone down on 2 May 1654 and the river Suir went quietly by, while the Comeraghs looked on, Fr Tirry’s life on earth was ended on a scaffold in the Market Square in Clonmel. He was now a grain of wheat.” In a booklet  Priest on the Run by Fr John O’Connor […]

Consider this.   The town sheriff, name of  Aten, is on the record as having killed ten men. He says the ten threatened him and there are other people in the town- men and women and even children – who have vowed to get him.So when he shot the ten in the back it was […]

The GPO is the jewel of O’Connell Street in Dublin – or it should be. There’s talk about cleaning up and renovating O’Connell Street generally, so what should be done with the historic GPO – offices?? The field for the next Presidential election in November isn’t looking particularly crowded at the moment. Will Mairead McGuinness […]

Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana both used to be Labour Party MPs. Now they’ve left Labour and are proposing to set up a new party with socalist values. As Sultana points out , “Just 50 families now own more wealth than half the UK population”   The BiBiC (geddit?) paid for a documentary on doctors […]

  Rachel Reeves wept in public yesterday.Has it softened those hearts  which were stony because they saw the Labour Party turning its back on the weakest in society? So was it a case of real tears of compassion or the weak sniffling of a woman out of her depth?   She’s not the first to […]

The British government is planning to abandon its custom of having the current monarch’s head on English coins and replace it with English landscapes and other less-directly monarchical  scenes. I remember English coins. There was of course Queen Elizabeth II herself, looking like a young woman even while she was actually deep into middle age. […]

  Try this. As the Germans incinerate Jews, a man at Hyde Park corner gets on a soap box and shouts “Death, death to the Nazi regime!” Do the police rush to arrest him – after all, he’s calling for violence against German soldiers. I think you could safely say he’d get a free pass […]

Every time Pat and I have a chat, we find ourselves. Coming back to the same topics. I think we both struggle against this,but some topics can’t be avoided.   An example this week: Wes Streeting whining about appalling scenes from Glastonbury being shown on TV. I wonder did Mrs Streeting drop wee Wes on […]

    In the early hours of 7th August 1985, five members of the Bamber family were found dead by Essex Police after forcibly entering their home at Whitehouse Farm shortly after 7.00am. The police had been alerted by Jeremy Bamber after he received a phone call from his adoptive father, Nevill Bamber, telling him that […]