Author Jude Collins

There can be few sights more fun than to watch a population drenched in moral perspiration. A fair example was on show on RTÉ’s The Frontline  last night. The panel and the audience and Pat Kenny were beating their bosoms and rending their hair, or rather beating the bosoms and rending the hair of the […]

I see where my old stable-mate and fellow-baldy at the VO, Brian Feeney, is getting  cross with Gerry Adams. Very cross. He says Gerry spoke to an audience in Co Derry and he misled them. Apparently he told them that Owen Paterson had dismissed the possibility of a border poll; Brian says the Good Friday […]

I see where my old stable-mate and fellow-baldy at the VO, Brian Feeney, is getting  cross with Gerry Adams. Very cross. He says Gerry spoke to an audience in Co Derry and he misled them. Apparently he told them that Owen Paterson had dismissed the possibility of a border poll; Brian says the Good Friday […]

Monks in medieval times used to keep a skull sitting on their desk so they’d have a daily reminder of their own mortality.  The Orange Order don’t have any official equivalent, as far as I know, which is a pity. Latest reminder of where they’re headed comes in the form of Danny Kennedy’s decision to […]

Monks in medieval times used to keep a skull sitting on their desk so they’d have a daily reminder of their own mortality.  The Orange Order don’t have any official equivalent, as far as I know, which is a pity. Latest reminder of where they’re headed comes in the form of Danny Kennedy’s decision to […]

“Out flew the web and floated wide- / The mirror crack’d from side to side;/’The curse is come upon me,’ cried/ The Lady of Shalott.” I don’t know how many Fianna Failers learnt The Lady of  Shalott at school, but after yesterday’s publication of the Mahon Report most of them must feel they know it in their bones […]

“Out flew the web and floated wide- / The mirror crack’d from side to side;/’The curse is come upon me,’ cried/ The Lady of Shalott.” I don’t know how many Fianna Failers learnt The Lady of  Shalott at school, but after yesterday’s publication of the Mahon Report most of them must feel they know it in their bones […]

When I was young, I was a bad loser. Really bad. Like Arsene Wenger, I’d feel almost physically sick when I got beaten in a handball game or a push-penny game or a game of football. I remember feeling a sense of absolution – years too late – when I saw the Roy Keane quotation: […]

When I was young, I was a bad loser. Really bad. Like Arsene Wenger, I’d feel almost physically sick when I got beaten in a handball game or a push-penny game or a game of football. I remember feeling a sense of absolution – years too late – when I saw the Roy Keane quotation: […]

I have a problem with John Bruton. Among other things, he just doesn’t look or sound like a former Taoiseach. But then God made us all the way he intended and I’m not volunteering to enter any beauty contests myself. No, my main problem with John is his statement, uttered on the occasion of Prince […]