Declan Kearney Has everyone gone mad? Seriously, though. Sinn Féin’s chairman Declan Kearney is reported as having “challenged republicans to say ‘sorry’ – not for the IRA war, but for the hurt caused by all its armed actions”. Very commendable, very helpful but totally unoriginal. Republicans have been saying for years now that they’re sorry […]
Author Jude Collins
Et tu, O Cuiv?
Fianna Fail must be feeling terrible. Or maybe in a perverse way relieved. When you’ve been slaughtered at the polls and now the grandson of your party’s founder, Dev, the man who wrote the bloody constitution that those damned Fine Gael and Labour lot are now getting ready to tamper with – what does he […]
Et tu, O Cuiv?
Fianna Fail must be feeling terrible. Or maybe in a perverse way relieved. When you’ve been slaughtered at the polls and now the grandson of your party’s founder, Dev, the man who wrote the bloody constitution that those damned Fine Gael and Labour lot are now getting ready to tamper with – what does he […]
Did that Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring report miss the mark and hit the wall?
“Are we leaving the Troubles behind or does the continuation of sectarian division mean that at some point in the future the underlying tensions could see a violent eruption?”That’s a question from the Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring report – a progress report on our society since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.The report’s author is Paul […]
Did that Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring report miss the mark and hit the wall?
“Are we leaving the Troubles behind or does the continuation of sectarian division mean that at some point in the future the underlying tensions could see a violent eruption?”That’s a question from the Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring report – a progress report on our society since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.The report’s author is Paul […]
Last night’s ‘Prime Time’: hooray, no Miriam.
James McClean RTÉ’s Prime Time was worth watching last night, and not just because the presenter was the cool and thoughtful Richard Crowley rather than smiling Miriam O’Callaghan, who brings new meaning to the term “confessional state” and new depth to the old song “Ma, she’s makin’ eyes at me”. Admittedly the first part, about […]
Last night’s ‘Prime Time’: hooray, no Miriam.
James McClean RTÉ’s Prime Time was worth watching last night, and not just because the presenter was the cool and thoughtful Richard Crowley rather than smiling Miriam O’Callaghan, who brings new meaning to the term “confessional state” and new depth to the old song “Ma, she’s makin’ eyes at me”. Admittedly the first part, about […]
The rich are different
Stunned, that’s what I was. Stunned and disoriented, when I read in this morning’s Indo that thing about better-off people. Like the child in the poem, my parents kept me (or tried to keep me) from children who were rough. It was never quite explained why but I guessed from hints that these people, besides […]
The rich are different
Stunned, that’s what I was. Stunned and disoriented, when I read in this morning’s Indo that thing about better-off people. Like the child in the poem, my parents kept me (or tried to keep me) from children who were rough. It was never quite explained why but I guessed from hints that these people, besides […]
Nice try, judge, but…
Judge Nicholas Crichton There’s a judge in England who’s got plans for heroin users in this little north-eastern corner. No, that’s unfair – he has plans but he’s implementing them in England and he thinks it would be a good idea to implement them here as well. I’m not nearly so sure. Why so? Well, […]