Author Jude Collins

  Fr Des Wilson died in 2019 at the age of 94 years. On 8thJuly this year Fr Des would have been 100 years of age, had he lived. The people in Springhill Community House will be remembering him in a short service.  Fr Des Wilson wrote in the Foreword to a book by Fr […]

Why is the South so slow to speak out and condemn – and act against – Israel? And almost as bad – now that they’ve found the cojones to speak out, the big guns of the EU are blocking them. Will history look kindly on such inhumanity? Is the BBC the paragon of impartiality? Because […]

    The ongoing slaughter of the innocents in Gaza by Netanyahu and his Zionist henchmen in the Israeli government/military is shocking to most people around the world. Those in positions of power who might be able to stop the war and the killing are compelled to support Netanyahu and the Zionists – for whatever […]

  RSH. The Forward Moving Tongue.By Randall Stephen Hall.Including the song THE BOATYARDFrom the album “Wake the Blue Sleeper”Am I a son of the soilAnymore or less than you?The tongue in my headBeds itself down.Once a creature of the crown.Now, a shrinking ideaWithin our heads in the North.My tongue, my tongueA shape shifter.A lifter of […]

        Britain’s historic legacy of treachery, violence and injustice in Ireland continues to this day. In2023 Parliament declared that 1100 killings in NI were ineligible for the rule of law. Why? Allthe deaths bore signs of government collusion. Parliament’s burying the truth of the killingscame with a provision absolving the government of […]

    The recent remarks of both former Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar and Wallace Thompson, one of the founding members of the DUP, are to be welcomed. Both men have offered their vision for the New Ireland. Also to be commended is Reverend Karen for her engagement over a number of years. These are the kind […]

Two topics only this time, I’m afraid. But rest assured – we squeeze both dry.   The first is events in the Middle East. Trump has shown his usual light touch by dropping a massive bomb – short of nuclear they don’t come any  bigger than the Bunker Buster. Only now what? Will the Iranians […]

  Yesterday, 379 MPs voted to decriminalise abortion, after 24 weeks, despite those babies being able to survive outside the womb. The two SDLP MPs – Colum Eastwood and Claire Hanna – were amongst those in support of such an extreme position. One must wonder how we got to a stage where even a nine-month […]

A lot of people tend to think Donald Trump is the top liar in the Western world. Yes, he lies a lot – as did Tony Blair, when he told parliament that Iraqi nukes were just 45 minutes from London. The amount of bloodshed that provoked is etched on Blair’s face: he is like a […]

Tomorrow in the Old Bailey,  the rap trio Kneecap will be charged with breaking the law. To be precise,  LIAM ÓG Ó hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara, will be tried for shouting at a concert “The only good Tory is a dead Tory” and “Kill your local MP”. Kneecap are a serious musical group, while at […]