I see where, over on sluggerotoole.com, Mick Fealty is going all thoughtful and running a professional eye over The Irish Times, which today apparently has adopted a new format. It’s not gone tabloid but it hasn’t stayed broadsheet either. Somewhere in between. Mick says things like “The Berliner is a personal favorite of mine, not […]
Author Jude Collins
Drugs and death
It’s not a position I usually find myself in, but I reacted negatively yesterday when I heard someone – almost certainly a politician – talk about the death of David Black as ‘an all-Ireland problem’. I concede that the dissident group which killed him very likely has members north and south of the border, but […]
Drugs and death
It’s not a position I usually find myself in, but I reacted negatively yesterday when I heard someone – almost certainly a politician – talk about the death of David Black as ‘an all-Ireland problem’. I concede that the dissident group which killed him very likely has members north and south of the border, but […]
The few things we know and the many we don’t
Maybe you better stop reading now. That is, if you’ve heard all you want to hear on the subject of sexual abuse, about which tens of thousands, maybe millions of words have been written and spoken in recent years….You still want to go on reading? Despite last night seeing that odd and sad figure, Freddie […]
The few things we know and the many we don’t
Maybe you better stop reading now. That is, if you’ve heard all you want to hear on the subject of sexual abuse, about which tens of thousands, maybe millions of words have been written and spoken in recent years….You still want to go on reading? Despite last night seeing that odd and sad figure, Freddie […]
Death of a prison officer
It’s strange. Just after I heard of the killing of David Black, the prison officer, I heard that someone I admire a great deal was suffering from terminal cancer. So the two deaths came together in my head. Condemnations of the David Black killing have come flooding in. Peter Robinson says it’s the work […]
Death of a prison officer
It’s strange. Just after I heard of the killing of David Black, the prison officer, I heard that someone I admire a great deal was suffering from terminal cancer. So the two deaths came together in my head. Condemnations of the David Black killing have come flooding in. Peter Robinson says it’s the work […]
My favourite town? Corby of course.
People someitmes ask me what’s my favourite town and I never hesitate or stop to think. Not Belfast, not Derry, not Omagh – my favourite town is Corby. Never heard of it? Let me explain then. Corby is located in Northamptonshire in England and what makes it my favourite place is that it wants to […]
My favourite town? Corby of course.
People someitmes ask me what’s my favourite town and I never hesitate or stop to think. Not Belfast, not Derry, not Omagh – my favourite town is Corby. Never heard of it? Let me explain then. Corby is located in Northamptonshire in England and what makes it my favourite place is that it wants to […]
Can you describe this man?
History can be depressing but not all the time. Sometimes it’s enlightening and even fun. In the Irish Times this morning there’s a report that Michael Collins called on the help of British forces during the Civil War to shell the Four Courts, where anti-Treaty forces had been in place for three months. That’s Michael […]