Author Jude Collins

Well, I note where the British Secretary of State is doing what he does best: pretending to act as an enlightening influence on the two benighted tribes in the north of Ireland. Nudge us towards being as normal as Finchley. It’s important work, because it makes him look as if he has a function here. […]

I watched the arrival of Katie Taylor and her father in Bray this evening and it was a heart-warming scene. The sun was out, the sea sparkling, the crowd filled with love and admiration of this modest young woman. Great to see. And then I thought: why wasn’t there a proper greeting of the Irish […]

I watched the arrival of Katie Taylor and her father in Bray this evening and it was a heart-warming scene. The sun was out, the sea sparkling, the crowd filled with love and admiration of this modest young woman. Great to see. And then I thought: why wasn’t there a proper greeting of the Irish […]

  Sometimes – particularly at weekends – I feel a terrible lassitude coming over me, where I don’t want ever to write another word about anything in the world, real or imagined.  Then I’ll come across something that will spark me into life, either because I think the person has hit the proverbial nail soundly […]

  Sometimes – particularly at weekends – I feel a terrible lassitude coming over me, where I don’t want ever to write another word about anything in the world, real or imagined.  Then I’ll come across something that will spark me into life, either because I think the person has hit the proverbial nail soundly […]

1.  It was a crap fight. In fact it’s a long time since I’ve seen as crap a fight, amateur or professional, male or female. If you caught the young English woman Nicola Ward in her gold medal fight, or think back to Katie Taylor’s previous fight, you’ll see the difference: night and day. Mind […]

1.  It was a crap fight. In fact it’s a long time since I’ve seen as crap a fight, amateur or professional, male or female. If you caught the young English woman Nicola Ward in her gold medal fight, or think back to Katie Taylor’s previous fight, you’ll see the difference: night and day. Mind […]

I was at the annual ‘West Belfast Talks Back’ discussion last night and it was a scrappy if sometimes amusing affair. Yvette Shapiro was in the chair, and try as she might, she couldn’t stop people from standing up and giving long (if sometimes worthy) speeches instead of asking questions. There were four people on […]

I was at the annual ‘West Belfast Talks Back’ discussion last night and it was a scrappy if sometimes amusing affair. Yvette Shapiro was in the chair, and try as she might, she couldn’t stop people from standing up and giving long (if sometimes worthy) speeches instead of asking questions. There were four people on […]

Cheesh. There are some mornings when I don’t know where to begin. My good friend gio has decided to maintain his mask of anonymity while insisting that I must, sans mask, deliver hmy opinion on physical violence. Another poster-boy/girl tells me I must now write about the Catholic Church. Re anonymity : to say it […]