Has the DUP’s Arlene Foster got a brain? She’s a lawyer so she may well have (although not necessarily, since some members of that profession possess more in the way of low animal cunning). But let’s give Arlene the benefit of any doubt and say she has a brain. If so, she parked at the […]
Author Jude Collins
A border poll: what a pity Theresa Villiers gets to decide.
Tonight, barring natural disasters and acts of God, I’ll be on the Nolan Show. Not, I rush to add, as one of the top-table people: I’ll be down there with the commoners (and boy, were they common last week), with an occasional filler-in question lobbed my way if I’m lucky. The debate, again barring natural […]
A border poll: what a pity Theresa Villiers gets to decide.
Tonight, barring natural disasters and acts of God, I’ll be on the Nolan Show. Not, I rush to add, as one of the top-table people: I’ll be down there with the commoners (and boy, were they common last week), with an occasional filler-in question lobbed my way if I’m lucky. The debate, again barring natural […]
Inez McCormack: a great and good woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j5pIaYjYWI Today is a sad day, and not just because it’s grey and cold out there, but because the light comes up on a day without the living presence of a great woman. I interviewed Inez McCormack first about twenty-five years ago and found her to be a woman full of warmth and idealism. When […]
Inez McCormack: a great and good woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j5pIaYjYWI Today is a sad day, and not just because it’s grey and cold out there, but because the light comes up on a day without the living presence of a great woman. I interviewed Inez McCormack first about twenty-five years ago and found her to be a woman full of warmth and idealism. When […]
Irish unity or union with Britain – what’s the difference?
Gerry Adams has called for a border poll and has been met with widespread derision. There’s no chance, Peter Robinson says, of the majority of people in Northern Ireland voting for constitutional change. They point to the census figures which show 63% of people here wanting to maintain the Union with Britain. Adams, however, […]
Irish unity or union with Britain – what’s the difference?
Gerry Adams has called for a border poll and has been met with widespread derision. There’s no chance, Peter Robinson says, of the majority of people in Northern Ireland voting for constitutional change. They point to the census figures which show 63% of people here wanting to maintain the Union with Britain. Adams, however, […]
Politics: what’s possible and what’s impossible
I was listening to Mick Fealty being interviewed on RTÉ radio today. It was about the flag protest and why it was that Peter Robinson was not prepared to appear on camera, shoulder-to-shoulder with Martin McGuinness to denounce the violence and law-breaking of the protestors. After all, McGuinness had done the shoulder-to-shoulder thing when the […]
Politics: what’s possible and what’s impossible
I was listening to Mick Fealty being interviewed on RTÉ radio today. It was about the flag protest and why it was that Peter Robinson was not prepared to appear on camera, shoulder-to-shoulder with Martin McGuinness to denounce the violence and law-breaking of the protestors. After all, McGuinness had done the shoulder-to-shoulder thing when the […]
They haven’t gone away, you know
Can you believe it? There was a West Belfast priest on the local TV evening news yesterday, with important information. Groups of aggressive young people waving and wearing Irish tricolours have begun blocking routes into and out of Belfast, and attacking the police when they ventured near. The priest said that the Provisional IRA, the […]