Author Jude Collins

  Catherine Corless, the woman from Tuam, who researched and published the facts about the ‘secret burial place’ of up to 800 babies near the Bon Secours Mother and Child home in Tuam is a brave woman. She was determined to make known the truth about the horrific deaths of the children and the secret […]

  An Sionnach Fionn blogs at  https://ansionnachfionn.com/ April 3, 2017 Current Affairs, History, Irish Republican, Military, Politics 4 comments I have argued in several recent articles that the United Kingdom’s continued inability to accept the unvarnished history of the Irish-British Troubles, the decades-long conflict in the UK-administered north-east of Ireland, poses a serious threat to ongoing […]

“People die for love, for peace, for an idea. And people kill for those reasons too.” – Old Chinese Proverb The name of this article is controversial, so let me begin by stating that I do not support violence being used for political ends in the current Irish context – it will neither achieve Irish […]

I note where that Venerable Organ (VO) The Irish News has finally got a response to a question. After eight months the Department of the Environment has conceded that the lighting of a Twelfth bonfire by Paul Givan near Augher, Co Tyrone, was, “in essence an offence”. They don’t say whether it is a legal […]

  There is growing prima facie (that’s Latin for a quick gawk, Joxer) evidence that the capital of the Free Southern Stateen, Lapdog –sur- Liffey is actually based on the fictional hillbilly town of Dogpatch, USA. And just as the cartoonist Al Capp was the motivational spirit behind the original so also his Oirish cousin, […]

There are two thoughts pressing on my thinking this morning, both the product of articles I’ve read online. One was in The Guardian and made no reference to our NE Nest (NEN). The other was from today’s Sindo and focuses exclusively on our NEN. Tempted though I am to tackle both here, I’ll confine my […]

The parting of the ways with Article 50 this week may have seemed amicable enough, with Donald Tusk speaking of sadness at Britain’s departure  and Theresa May sounding as though she was sending  the EU a love letter rather than a Dear John . But hardly had the ink dried than a couple of nasties […]

  Finally the brexit process has begun and there is no going back, not to the borders of the past apparently, but new frictionless borders which no one has been able to spell out what will be, other than to suggest some imaginative thinking is required. While we are waiting for this minister for imaginative […]

    By Donal Lavery     Let me start by stating that I clearly don’t hold political office, so there are limits as to what I know concerning the specifics of what precisely is going on behind the scenes. There are things I don’t know and there are things I can’t know as a […]

  I write for this blog as a way of engaging with others about issues and events and people that are important to me and to others. There are so many issues that preoccupy us these days. One is the untimely death of Martin McGuinness, another is the growing support for Sinn Fein, there is […]