Author Jude Collins

Thanks to Donal Kennedy for sending me this interesting link. I think it catches the respect with which Dev approached minority languages in general. What a good example to our elected representatives…   http://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/grandson-of-de-valera-follows-footsteps/

Fifty-five years ago when it looked like WORLD WAR THREE was about to wipe us all out  I bought a copy of Newsweek and, probably a copy of TIME magazine.  A picture in one of them showed an American Senator being given a message on the crisis at an airport.  The caption named him as […]

  Hugh Linehan’s recent writhing on the wall of woe in the Saturday edish of The Unionist Times is, as harbingers go, a dead ringer for the little big debt knell for TUT of Tittle Tattle fame. So morose, indeed, was Hugh   he felt compelled to overdose in the holding out of the gloomy flat […]

  Rupert Murdoch’s media empire includes the English newspaper the SUN, and 21st Century FOX. He hopes to add SKY TV to his holding. However, for his commitment to broadcast standards he needs  to receive a “fit and proper” rating from British authorities.  The phone hacking scandals at Murdoch’s News of the World and the […]

I’ve just ingested a bowlful of Rice Krispies (other types of cereal are available), tea and a small mountain of home-made bread. As I was slathering on the butter and marmalade I was listening to Radio Ulster /Raidio Uladh; they were questioning the DUP’s Simon Hamilton and Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy about the suspension of talks. […]

OK – listen up, all posters of comments. I’ve been told that posters are using abusive language to each other. If I see it, I’ll take it down and the poster will be on a yellow card. I’ve been told I have compared the DUP to dogs. I’ve searched but failed to find this. If […]

Father Joseph Mallin , 103-year-old Jesuit priest in Hong Kong and son of Michael Mallin  executed by the British on May 8th 1916, prepared a Document ” In Memory of my Father“ which debunks the libel and slander of Michael’s good name as a courageous, honest and a man of integrity by the British Empire’s Brigadier Macconchy […]

“I think therefore I am,” René Descartes is famed for saying. Our awareness of the fact that we can think, he argued, was proof that we exist. Nice one, René. But there are other ways of persuading yourself that you exist, that you have a life. One of these is memory. “I remember therefore I […]

  One national newspaper has hailed yesterday’s decision by the Government to pay £1400 to pregnant women to travel from Northern Ireland to Britain to end the life of their unborn child as a great victory. If this is a victory what constitutes a defeat? Every abortion is a tragedy – a tragedy for a […]

   I see letters in THE IRISH TIMES calling for a re-imagining  Ireland’s flag. Sir Anthony O’Reilly, formerly known as the British Lion Tony O’Reilly, tried to run that idea up the flagpole in New York many years ago, but Brian Lenihan Sr. shot it down with style. The Irish Rugby Football Union, long the […]