Author Jude Collins

Compensate Adams?

This morning I hear that the British government may have to give compensation to Gerry Adams, among others, for unlawful imprisonment back in the days of Long Kesh. On BBC Radio 4’ ‘Today’ programme the presenter pressed his guest on this issue, as though the inclusion of Gerry Adams in compensation would prove how stupid […]

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The Dark Well by Randall Stephen Hall

    Let us pause on the bridge Before we cross over. And let us see the moving waters And what they conjure up for us. Silvery ripples and shining reflections Upon ourselves and the golden dreams Of who we might become. Beyond the gun, the fear  And the bully dog’s jaw.   And when […]

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Matt Diskin is spiked by the Irish Times. Quelle surprise!

Sir,   Having read The Lancet’s latest shocking report in The Guardian on the revised numbers of civilian causalities in Gaza, it’s very reasonable to ask why the TV news media in particular have barely mentioned it at all; in stark.contrast to its current saturation coverage of the raging fires in California, which  are relatively […]

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Enoch Burke and backbones

I think we should call people what they ask us to call them. My son Matt for many years was Matthew, but there came a point in his teen years where he wanted to be known as Matt. So we called him Matt. Just as one of my other sons was called Hugh David, and […]

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The Young Scientist – is that all?

  The BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, which ends today,  is a noble achievement. It involves over 1,000 student finalists who are judged by 85 experts from Ireland’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)  sectors. President Michael D Higgins was right to praise it: “It is both an exciting and a morally challenging time […]

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