Author Jude Collins

I was listening earlier today to William Crawley quizzing Rev Harold Goode about his observation of IRA decommissioning. I listened for only a short while, and he hadn’t got round to talking about the decommissioning of loyalist weapons but  I expect he’s been over that ground by now.  There’s a thing about weapons: they don’t […]

It is such a pity that Fintan O’Toole and Michael McDowell couldn’t have linked up when both were at their bodily peak. They’d have made a great wrestling tag-duo. Yesterday Fintan vaulted into the ring and went ten rounds with Sinn Féin,  concluding his comparison of Sinn Féin with the Cathoic Church (at its worst, […]

God it’s gas too, isn’t it? The way the Shinners have shot themselves in the foot, knee, arms and ear. I just LOVE IT!  And people can say what they like about Irish media, but when it comes time to step up to the plate and whack the ball down the Shinners’ throats, no one […]

              In an article in the Andersonstown News some time ago, the former President of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, stated: “The Good Friday Agreement created a mechanism for constitutional change through referendums. It was overwhelmingly endorsed in referendums North and South. “There is a constitutional obligation on the Irish […]

For the past week the media, particularly but not exclusively in the North, have been on a blood-hunt against Sinn Féin. They lied, they dissembled, they put children at risk – the list goes on.And every media orifice emitted its guff: The View, Nolan, Talkback, Prime Time.  You’d nearly think an election was on the way – […]

  Sir,   Reading the review by Professor Rachel Matthews, where she recalls chairing, on July 7 2011 a panel on ethics and press standards which included a former director of the Telegraph Media who had chaired the Press Complaints Commission, I could only conclude that she was as out of place as a virgin […]

    I think that the Western World is probably at its most rotten as I write. The United States, Britain and much of the EU are up past their eyebrows in genocide and their media are happy with the murder of over 170 heroic reporters and photographers in Gaza. Heroic and honest Englishmen such […]

  The IRA ceasefire in September 1994 came about because the IRA leadership (inside and outside the prisons) considered that it was the right time to create and develop a political strategy to advance the republican objective  to end British rule and to work for Irish reunification.  It was not just the behind the scenes […]

Do the people of the South of Ireland realise how lucky they are? In some other countries, the parliamentarians don’t give a tinker’s spit about anything, including the difference between right and wrong. In the South of Ireland, we have parliamentarians whose sharp eye on other people’s affairs makes the Skibereen Eagle look like a […]

THE REIVER AND THE GAEL.By Randall Stephen Hall. A song that tells the story.https://soundcloud.com/randall-stephen-hall/rsh-reiver-and-the-gael-demo-11724www.randallstephenhallsongs.com“The past affects our future.  As children we don’t choose to do this, any of this. By the time we are 18, the damage is done. We are still divided in the north.” RSH.I grew up in north Belfast but  I had […]