Author Jude Collins

  In 1924 when Ramsay MacDonald, who in 1900 co-founded Britain’s Labour Party with Keir Hardie and Arthur Henderson, on his appointment as Prime Minister, called at Buckingham Palace. King George V indicated unease at the Labour Party’s singing The Red Flag. McDonald promised that his party would pipe down.   A year earlier George […]

    Sometimes people work themselves into such an eye-stinging  moral lather, they miss the major point of the matter completely. Right now many are stuffed from head to toe with indignation. Leading the charge, as so often, is Stephen Nolan. Stephen, on his radio show, having lobbed in a brief balancer in the form […]

          The US presidential election is neck and neck. But only one candidate has been  compared to Adolf Hitler. Is it an exaggeration based in fact?   David Runciman (who poses the question) examines the evidence.   Donald Trump is a braggart, a rabble rouser and a narcissist, has been convicted […]

Dear Friends:  I have attached two ads placed in 4 Irish American papers in the past couple of weeks.  Much of this placement has been thanks to Ed Walsh and his wife Kathleen.  The ads  purpose is to set a tone for what is next.  The ABC Committee has fulfilled its purpose in alerting Americans […]

President Michael D Higgins is under fire from Israel, because he wrote a letter of congratulation  to the newly elected President of Iran.  Last night Michael D was at his fiery best, rebutting criticism and condemning the leakage to the press. Sometimes you gotta love Michael D. A Canadian gold-mining company is polluting and scarring […]

  There are few contemporary issues that match immigration for turning people gammon-coloured in the face and spluttering in  their speech. Sometimes it emerges from  odious politicians like Trump and Nigel Farage; sometime it emerges in the form of violent gangs who set fire to pathetic little canal-side pup-tents and roar that immigrants should go […]

      Nearly 30 years ago my wife and I travelled from London to Bologna with our car by ship and train, en route to Rome and other places.   In those days we camped taking our tents with us.   In the lashing rain we found a campsite by the Trasimene Lakes where […]

    Alex Kane is a former Communications Director of the Ulster Unionist Party. He claims, no doubt honestly, that he does not begrudge the Finucane family the consideration being given them by the British Government over the murder of solicitor Patrick Finucane in 1989.   He reports that Sir Edward de Silva confirmed that […]

    Franciscan priest and writer, Fr Richard Rohr wrote an article some time ago about fear being at the root of hatred. This article prompted me to think about the hatred that I have witnessed here in the north of Ireland over many years. It is a one-sided hatred. It is akin to racism […]

    I was born in an oasis of peace when most of the world was at war.   December 28 1941, three weeks after Pearl Harbou  German troops were at the western bus suburban bus stops of Moscow.   I remember my 3rd birthday, eating apple pie, and a present of a toy which […]