Author Jude Collins

Pics 1-4 are by John Patton (phototilly.eu)  Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4    “The Isle of Lunga is a designated site of special , scientific interest . Uninhabited, it is the largest of the Trenish Islands off Mull and home to a colony of puffins. Access is restricted but I was fortunate […]

On Monday of this week, Michelle O’Neill stepped into Martin McGuinness’s shoes. Had she done that literally, she’d have found they were too big to be practical. And even though we’re not talking leather here and talking political, they’re still too big for her. But then again, can you think of any Sinn Féin politician […]

 (Eddie Whyte blogs at https://palestiniansolidarity.wordpress.com An new online petition from fans of Celtic football club appealing to Scottish rockstar Rod Stewart to respect Palestinian rights and cancel his planned concert in Tel Aviv in June, has passed 2,000 supporters after only twenty four hours. Celtic fans have an affinity with oppressed peoples and a long tradition […]

  The mis-interpretations of our situation in the north of Ireland by the Irish Times and others were a large part of the reason why the conflict lasted so long. Nowadays, the Irish Times would be seen as a proponent of alternative truth – the “truth” presented according to what you believe and say about it […]

    The EU is no doubt in for a shaky few years. Trumps EU ambassador in waiting, Professor Ted Malloch has predicted a free trade deal with the UK will be concluded within 90 days, a surreal timeframe which is conditional on a very harsh brexit.  The way Trump is behaving, could we seriously […]

  It is the best of times, it is the worst of The Unionist Times. There is Seamas O Tuathail, AS (as is Abhcoide Sinsearach, as in SC, as in QC, which is often ungrammatically spelled as Queen’s Counsel, m’lud, but of course is actually, Queens’ Counsel, on account of there being, m’lud, not one […]

You have to hand it to DUP politicians: they try. You may not always like what they try but they definitely put the effort in. Yesterday evening Emma Little-Pengelly (she’s recently added her maiden name – Little – to her surname) was on BBC Raidio Uladh/Radio Ulster was complaining about Barra McGrory, the Director of […]

For the last few decades “pluralism” has been the buzzword of Dublin’s chattering classes. Perhaps Ireland’s greatest ever Pluralist was Myler McGrath who simultaneously was Bishop of many dioceses, not only in the Catholic Church in communion with Rome, but in the Church “by (English) law established in the reign of Good Queen Bess and […]

  When I was still a teenager and during my first year at university, studying for a psychology degree, I was always advocating for improved mental health services to deal with the scourge of depression which dampened the hopes of many in my generation. I was asked by a dedicated local mental health campaigner to […]

In my last BLOG I transcribed a letter of mine published in a local paper in Enfield, London  in December 1982  concerning the use of plastic bullets by the British army in Ireland, and the local (Enfield) manufacture of multi-shot plastic-bullet guns which threatened even further death and injury under the pretext  of peace-keeping. I […]