Author Jude Collins

At last. When I heard last night that Jeremy Corbyn plans to make a speech linking British foreign policy with attacks such as the recent one in Manchester, I felt like cheering. Someone had finally suggested that the motive for the crime might be worth looking at. At last. It has always been easier to […]

‘Fxxx off back to your chapel’, Father, ‘where you belong’. Along with others, I was on William St in Derry in January 1969, trying to stop a group of youngsters from throwing stones at the RUC. A futile exercise but a social learning experience with the realisation, to coin a phrase, that all had changed, […]

  Donal Lavery  -As some of you are aware, this blog spot was down recently but thankfully only temporarily. It’s good to know, that by the force of our arguments, we are keeping the Spooks in jobs and away from the dole offices.  The post-war British Labour Prime Minister, Clem Attlee, was once asked who he […]

I am pleased that West Cork, Skibbereen to be precise, is to have its first history festival next July.  The inaugural festival will see such subjects as the Knights Templar, and the Irish revolutionary period in West Cork included, as well as archaeology, political, literary, and military history up for discussion and debate.‘West Cork has […]

“IRELAND is literally belching out more greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture than any other country in the European Union. Cow burps and farts are being blamed on the Emerald Isle topping the emissions league of European nations ahead of Lithuania, Latvia and Denmark, with Britain coming a 12th out of 28 on the Eurostat list.” When I read this report I thought as […]

It’s forgotten now that leader of Britain’s Labour Party Harold Wilson travelled to Dublin to meet with the IRA’s Army Council in the 1970s. At the time that Army Council claimed to be the lawful government of Ireland, for reasons I’ll not go into here and the government in Taiwan held China’s seat at the […]

I was on Nolan yesterday morning alongside my dear friend and former classmate Ruth Dudley Edwards. The subject under discussion was whether Michelle O’Neill wasn’t being hypocritical when she signed the book of condolences for the people killed in the Manchester bomb. Ruthie got first whack, and as only she can do recalled how the […]

  In the Good Friday Agreement, part of the deal for giving up Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish Constitution/Bunreacht na hEireann was to hold a border poll to determine our future. The date for such a poll would be determined by the British Secretary. It would seem that the recent British overlords  are […]

An encore by popular demand…Jude Having corresponded with someone who isn’t a die-hard Sinn Fein voter, if at all, on why he should use his vote at this election, I’ve agreed to write this piece on the underlying basis for electing John and have set my own time aside to do it to demonstrate to […]

I was on the Lá Dearg demonstration last Saturday, and felt a bit of a fraud. As some of you know and are maybe sick hearing, I spent the greater part of my life fearing and detesting the Irish language. That’s because my teachers during my teen years tended to have big fists and I […]