There is no bitterness like the bitterness between old comrades. Or so they say. It would appear that old mates D Trump and E Musk have seriously fallen out. Musk has declared that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill (that’s not me being ironic – that’s what he’s actually calling it), that bill will result in a […]
Author Jude Collins
Casement Park: the place where parity of esteem went to die
There are those who shed a tear for yesteryear, when Orange Order bands could parade wherever they wanted to, housing was allocated on the basis of religious affiliation, and the RUC was 95% Protestant and 100% unionist. Dry your eyes, friends. Think Casement Park. We’ve still got our foot on the fenian neck. Ravenhill got […]
The Brutish Broadcasting Corporation – by Joe McVeigh
Gerry Adams won his defamation case against the BBC and was awarded a large sum by way of compensation. I am very pleased that the jury decided on the right verdict. For years the BBC and their allies in the Irish Times have done their utmost to discredit those who want justice and lasting […]
The IT throws a few brickbats at Adams – why couldn’t he have gone to court in Belfast?
It’s begun already. In today’s Irish Times, Kathy Sheridan questions why Gerry Adams took his defamation case to Dublin’s High Court, while at the same time she concedes he was perfectly entitled to do so. And yet she goes on for several paragraphs about the late transmission hour in the South of the Spotlight programme […]
A handshake among ourselves – by Randall Stephen Hall
A Handshake amongst OurselvesBy Randall Stephen Hall.The Reiver and the Gael from my album WAKE THE BLUE SLEEPERhttps://on.soundcloud.com/vQrzqNDFGzd8tlZwGWOf all the Border Reiver names From Scotland and England, two of the most significant in Ulster just might be Trimble (Turnbull) and Hume.According to Robert Bell, who wrote THE BOOK OF ULSTER SURNAMES, the Border Reivers were […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT GERRY & THE LAW, MACRON’S FIST FR HIS MISSUS, G’BYE STOOPID PADDY, & BOMBS
It’s become one of those Gerry Quotes that enter the language – “I took the case to put manners on the British Broadcasting Corporation”. Gerry Adams’s win in the Dublin High Court underlines an often forgotten fact – the British Broadcasting Corporation is British, and does its master’s work. There’s been push-back from a number […]
The B(ritish)BC: the paragon of responsible journalism?
“How have they found themselves in a situation where allegations were insufficiently evidenced with the consequence that license payers’ money will be now be spent on both damages and reputed legal costs running into many millions?” I’m guessing that the tortured syntax of the statement above will reveal the speaker to be a politician. This […]
10 reasons why the Adams verdict was all wrong
The Dublin jury was open to emotional manipulation that a non-jury court in Belfast would not have been open to. The jury was too young – mid-twenties to mid-thirties – and so wouldn’t have understood the Troubles. The court didn’t allow Austin Stack or Anne Traver to tell the story of their family loss. […]
Oh dear – Adams won the case! How can we find another way of kicking him?
I was pleased to hear just now that Gerry Adams won his defamation case against the BBC, which claimed that he had sanctioned the killing of Denis Donaldson. For decade after decade, the media in Ireland north and south could and did say whatever they wanted about Sinn Féin, safe in the knowledge […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT STEPHEN COLLINS & THE NORMANS, ISRAEL& SUPPORT FOR IDF, AND THE PSNI (OUCH!)
Our favourite Irish Times columnist is on the warpath again today, and has pilloried Sinn Féin for its ‘narrow nationalism’. It seems the South is going to devote a full year to celebrate the arrival in Ireland of the Normans. Stephen Collins dismisses the Shinners for trying to project themselves as MOPE – the most […]