Author Jude Collins

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You gotta hand it to the guy. One good poll and he’s outa the party grave, shaking a reproving finger at the state next door. Micheal Martin,  with the wind of that favourable recent poll rating, is suddenly started worrying about the north. Which makes a nice change from the fifty years or so when […]

You gotta hand it to the guy. One good poll and he’s outa the party grave, shaking a reproving finger at the state next door. Micheal Martin,  with the wind of that favourable recent poll rating, is suddenly started worrying about the north. Which makes a nice change from the fifty years or so when […]

I’m reading at the moment a splendid book titled The Two Unions‘ by a man called Alvin Jackson.  The two unions in question are those between England and Scotland, and England and Ireland. I was reminded of it today by a report in The Irish Times, about which more later. Jackson covers a huge amount […]

I’m reading at the moment a splendid book titled The Two Unions‘ by a man called Alvin Jackson.  The two unions in question are those between England and Scotland, and England and Ireland. I was reminded of it today by a report in The Irish Times, about which more later. Jackson covers a huge amount […]

The establishment of the Marie Stopes clinic in Great Victoria Street has blown into flame again the abortion debate, and if there’s one thing I don’t understand it’s the whole abortion thing. Questions? I’ve got plenty of those. Unfortunately answers are in short supply. It’s a bit like the national question: a lot of people […]

The establishment of the Marie Stopes clinic in Great Victoria Street has blown into flame again the abortion debate, and if there’s one thing I don’t understand it’s the whole abortion thing. Questions? I’ve got plenty of those. Unfortunately answers are in short supply. It’s a bit like the national question: a lot of people […]

So Ruairi  Quinn, the south’s Education minister, is keen to shake up the post-primary curriculum. If you’re a minister in a government, you’ve got to show that you’re hard-working and imaginative, and so it helps if you come up with some bold, radical step. Micheal Martin wouldn’t be where he is today (the leader of […]

So Ruairi  Quinn, the south’s Education minister, is keen to shake up the post-primary curriculum. If you’re a minister in a government, you’ve got to show that you’re hard-working and imaginative, and so it helps if you come up with some bold, radical step. Micheal Martin wouldn’t be where he is today (the leader of […]

I see artist Robert Ballagh is under some fire in the Letters page of today’s Irish Times.  That’s because,   speaking at a commemoration ceremony for Tom Barry in Cork on Monday, Ballagh rejected Irish government plans to commemorate those who died in the Easter Rising and the War of Independence with those who died […]