Author Jude Collins

“A lot of concern about huge rise of postal & proxy votes in nationalist areas. I can assure people – the SDLP hasn’t been orchestrating it.” So posted the SDLP leader Colum Eastwood on Twitter at 3.30pm on Tuesday 16th May, within hours of the unionist press warning that Arlene Foster was meeting the Electoral […]

I listened with interest to the lead topic on BBC Radio Ulster programme ‘Talkback’ on Friday afternoon. The programme was presented by Enda McClafferty standing in for William Crawley. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p053dy2w The guests were introduced as PR Consultant Tom Kelly, who we were told is also a former GAA Club Chairman. Next, former Sinn Feín Assembly […]

If you read my previous article, you know my view on the SDLP’s underlying pro-Union agenda concerning all of this. You and I know just how low the public really think of them and their pathetically circumspect tactics – “boot shining boys” for the Unionists, to be polite about it. But for the purposes of […]

  Hugo McNeill, with characteristic understatement, claimed on RTE recently that the RWC 2023 could, oops, would be ‘The GREATEST event to take place in this country EVER’. Bar none, like. This is Hugo McNeill, former rugger international and current main tree-hugger involved in the hugger mugger necessary for Ireland’s bid to host the Rugby […]

Sometime before the Home Rule crisis, the MP and Head of the Orange Order, Colonel Edward Saunderson, declared that there were two nations in Ireland – there was “Loyal Ireland and there is Disloyal Ireland.” He never brought religion into the matter, for politics is the clash of ideas, not theology. When talking to a […]

Pics 1-5 are by Antrim Lens Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4   Pic 5 “I know I promised some nature photos this week after the USAF photos of last week so five out of six are of the beauty of nature that surrounds us and the sixth is of another US military jet […]

I see the Pope has appointed a new papal nuncio to Ireland. The Vatican does not recognise the border. The new nuncio is from Nigeria, he is 60 years, has been a diplomat for most of his life, and likes table tennis. I am going to challenge him to a game. Des Wilson has agreed […]

Can there be a more painful thing than unrequited love? Where you burn with ardour for the loved one, who responds by making it clear to the world that s/he finds you tedious, embarrassing and wants to be seen in public with you as infrequently as possible. And worst of all, that you never learn […]

I may be mistaken but I believe that Syria is a sovereign state recognised by the United Nations where it has a seat. I also understand that no other state has the right to attack it nor station troops, naval or airforce personnel on its territory without the invitation of its Government or a resolution […]

There are no political figures in the North more insufferable than South Belfast GP Dr. Alasdair McDonnell. The man approaches the world from an imagined stature which even Churchill could not countenance; with below-belt mudslinging towards political opponents in a way more pious than a Bishop on a Sunday (and that’s an insult to the […]