Author Jude Collins

The meeting in Dublin of over 1,000 members of the Catholic Church must give heart to those who (as Martin McGuinness says he does) love the Catholic Church and are concerned for its direction. There’s no doubt that many Church members feel their Church is in a mess and that the hierarchy aren’t doing much […]

There’s something about Church of Ireland people that I tend to like. The late Canon Eric Elliot, for example, whom I knew reasonably well,  was as modest and Christian a man as you could encounter.  There are exceptions but C of I people generally strike some sort of responsive chord in me.  Maybe I’ve been […]

There’s something about Church of Ireland people that I tend to like. The late Canon Eric Elliot, for example, whom I knew reasonably well,  was as modest and Christian a man as you could encounter.  There are exceptions but C of I people generally strike some sort of responsive chord in me.  Maybe I’ve been […]

You going to watch the FA Cup Final today?  I will, although every so often I remember talking to the guide at the Nou Camp a couple of summers ago.  He asked me what Irish soccer club I supported. When I said, um,  none really but that I always liked to see Arsenal win, I […]

You going to watch the FA Cup Final today?  I will, although every so often I remember talking to the guide at the Nou Camp a couple of summers ago.  He asked me what Irish soccer club I supported. When I said, um,  none really but that I always liked to see Arsenal win, I […]

Talking about child abuse and the Catholic clergy, if you don’t follow the majority line, is to take your head in your hands these days. But here goes. The airwaves and the headlines are presently dominated by the Cardinal Brady affair from 1975. Fr Sean Brady as he then was took notes at a meeting […]

Talking about child abuse and the Catholic clergy, if you don’t follow the majority line, is to take your head in your hands these days. But here goes. The airwaves and the headlines are presently dominated by the Cardinal Brady affair from 1975. Fr Sean Brady as he then was took notes at a meeting […]

So – what colour’s your passport? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way. Mine’s is red, which doesn’t necessarily tell you a lot. But big news this morning is, if I were a university-age student and had an Irish passport, there’s a good chance I’d get a place in a Scottish university without paying fees. […]

So – what colour’s your passport? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way. Mine’s is red, which doesn’t necessarily tell you a lot. But big news this morning is, if I were a university-age student and had an Irish passport, there’s a good chance I’d get a place in a Scottish university without paying fees. […]

You might say they’re warming up for taking on a post-O’Reilly Indo,  but today’s Irish Times had an article bludgeoning the Lord Mayor of Belfast,  the TD for Louth and the Deputy First Minister at Stormont. The fact that all three happen to be Shinners might lead you to think that the writer had something against […]