Author Jude Collins

I watched a TV report recently on how Protestants living along the border area view the notion of a border poll. One man, whose farm straddles the north and the south, said he thought the border should be done away with – and have all of Ireland within the UK. As for himself, he’d vote […]

Pics 1-4 are by Perkin Warbeck           Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4  (A man of few words, Perkin merely tells us  “CÉAD MÍLE MALTA”)   Pics 5-7 are by John Patton ( http://www.phototilly.eu ) Pic 5 Pic 6 Pic 7   “BASS ROCK GANNET COLONY Gannets are large, white seabirds with […]

The  day that’s been innit I’ve been checking out GOOGLE TRANSLATE from the Irish into Sacs-Beurla (the Twitter/Jargon of the Saxons).   Beidh Eire fos ag Cait ni Dhuibhir               = Ah cats will still not load Dwyer. Pog mo thon                     […]

How much of our thinking is wishful? Quite a bit, I suspect.  We produce a model of how we would like things to be and then we gather together signs and portents that will point to that view. For example, The Irish Voice,  an American-Irish newspaper, had an editorial yesterday with the heading “A `United Ireland […]

When Theresa Villiers asked James Brokenshire in Westminster to confirm that he agreed that some information simply could not be made public without putting lives at risk, it is clear that this move was to reinforce a position being taken during the current post-election negotiations relating to the truth veto on grounds of national security. […]

  In 1940 Judy Garland (18) played the lead role in the fillum ‘ Little Nellie Kelly’. It is safe to say that it did not quite make the same lasting splash as the movie she had made the previous year: ‘The Wizard of Oz’. In fact, in between those two motion pictures she actually […]

I know I should have my tongue torn out and my typing fingers chopped off, but I think maybe St Patrick is over-rated. Consider the facts.  The first time he came to Ireland, he was so uninterested in seeing the place, they had to bring him in chains. And keep him hostage for a number […]

Lá Fhéile Phádraig – Ag Tarraint Daoine le Chéile? le Seosamh Mac a’Bheatha   Gach bliain ag tús an Earraigh, ar an Seachtú lá déag de Mí Marta, tagann na hÉireannaigh le chéile chun Lá Fhéile Phádraig a chomóradh agus a cheiliúradh. Tá cliú agus cáil ar Naomh Pádraig ar fud an domhain. Tá cliú […]

There’s a Cardinal in Myanmar called Cardinal Bo who talks about “ecological terrorism”. By that he means the wilful destruction of the environment by big business. He talks about “economic terrorists” and “ecological terrorists.” Quoting Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, Cardinal Bo says the Pope presents the world’s current crisis as an […]