Author Jude Collins

Sunday Morning coming down and one stumbles across the floor to fumble in the closet for one’s cleanest dirty blueshirts, not. Rather does one open one’s mullioned window in one’s monogrammed silk dressing gown for the sure-fire hand delivery of one’s Sindo, thus conveyed by the Yoghurt Currier Service which is a subsidiary of the […]

Donald Trump is doing all he can to discredit the media. Yesterday, the White House press secretary Sean Spicer (obviously Russian lineage) insisted that the crowd for Trump’s inauguration was the biggest ever. Photographs show that he’s lying, but that doesn’t seem to bother him. If he can insert a question mark into people’s heads […]

Sir  MANDELA’S LEGACY Among the many reasons to salute Nelson Mandela’s memory is his refusal, when visiting Ireland, to join the chorus of Pharisees condemning Republicans.  That refusal clearly still rankles, as witness Bob Geldof’s article in your Nelson Mandela supplement, December 6th Donal Kennedy December 11 2013″. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ABORTION 27 November 1980 “Sir, It […]

Anyone following the news will note the conclusion of the Historical Abuse Inquiry into children’s homes and social services for those in care by the state. Its findings are without any shadow of a doubt a shocking scar on the local psyche. Some in the Roman Catholic Church have been complicit in the systematic punishment […]

Your humble scribbler had an interesting day yesterday – I was down in Dublin at the ‘Towards a United Ireland’ conference held in the Mansion House by Sinn Féin, to mark the centenary of the meeting of the First Dail. The conference consisted of two discussion panels which didn’t really discuss with each other but responded […]

Generally speaking, most of us tend to underestimate the power of the mainstream media. We tell ourselves that since now we have Facebook and Twitter and all the rest, the press, radio and TV are considerably enfeebled. There’s truth in that, but the mainstream media still are hugely important in framing public thinking.   Which […]

To all those republicans or nationalists out there that may consider casting a vote for People Before Profit at this election, I invite you to watch the video of the AAA/PBP Dail representatives addressing the issue of partition head on just a few years ago. To your amazement, they outlined very clearly that they were […]

“If the service you got from us today was so good that it made you go ‘WOW!’ – why not nominate us for a ‘WOW!’ Award? Fill in the attached card or do it online.”    Some years ago a Local Authority addressed that question and that request to users of one of its facilities.It […]

  Pics 1-4 are by Perkin Warbeck   Pic 1                                                                      Pic 2 Pic 3               […]

  Is the conflict in Ireland over?   Only a year ago at the start of Irelands centenary of the Easter Rising, I would have said undoubtedly, most definitely and without any doubt whatsoever. Now a year later, I am finding it difficult to really care be honest. So, what has changed? Sinn Fein have […]