Author Jude Collins

The latest comments from Arlene Foster about her political counterpart Michelle O’Neill have provoked a mostly suitable response from the wider community across Ireland. The insinuations associated with the “She’s an attractive blonde” comments do not need to be elucidated – the connotations are easily deciphered as implying that Michelle O’Neill is not a serious […]

I recently read William L Shirer’s 1400 page “RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH”  published in  1960. An American journalist, Shirer had been  a foreign correspondent in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Rome and Geneva between January 1934 and December 1940 and his “BERLIN DIARY” published in early 1941,gave first-hand, eye-witness and ear-witness accounts of […]

Céad míle fáilte (a hundred thousand welcomes). I was struck by a debate on BBC Talkback on 12th May 2017, with Mark Carruthers interviewing the News Letter’s Editor, Ben Lowry about Acht na Gaeilge… the supremacist and fear-based outpourings during this radio show prompted me to revisit my thoughts on the wider topic of the […]

  A long but revealing read. Are you sitting comfortably?  Then begin… https://ansionnachfionn.com/2017/05/12/alternative-facts-in-the-irish-times-on-the-1921-execution-of-an-informer/

Because Jesus was a wisdom teacher, it is sometimes difficult to get the deeper meaning of what he is saying or rather to get the meaning of his words as they were recorded especially in St John’s Gospel. St Johns gospel is different from the others. The author wishes to convey a deeper meaning to the words of Jesus. […]

The first past the post electoral system here is unfair and undemocratic. It was introduced to placate unionists who feared that their majority would be wiped out by the PR system of electing representatives to Westminster. It has most often worked in their favour in Westminster elections and it does not fairly represent the voters in each constituency. […]

  When – and not before time ! – the finest mind of the Free Southern Stateen was recently announced as European Commentator of the Year the reaction on Liffeyside ranged from Aw to Awe. Naturally, those who reacted in the first way were in a negligible minority – their full reaction was: – Aw, […]

So. Will Brexit be good or bad for us? That’s the question  nobody knows the answer to, just as nobody can say whether it’ll rain on the Twelfth of July this year. But we can hazard a guess if we read the signs and come to a conclusion  based on evidence and thought. Nobody, to […]

THE IRISH TIMES has a section headed “Opinion and Analysis.”  Perhaps it’s no accident that it is so headed for  boneheaded. opinions have primacy in its columns and analysis rarely gets a look-in.  A recent example was a, presumably paid for, “analysis” by a professional academic Dr.Christopher Kissane of the London School of Economics which […]

Before I begin I want to outline that I, as a young person (25), have no qualms with other young people standing for election. I think that in a society bragging of democracy, linked artificially to a state prepared to drop an atom bomb in “defence” of it, that people should put their views to […]