Well, that was a shock result, wasn’t it? All the focus had been on Colin Duffy and not on his co-defendant, Brian Shivers. Then yesterday, the judge (it was a Diplock, jury-less court) pronounced that Duffy was not guilty and Shivers was, so Duffy went free and Shivers got a life sentence. To complicate matters, […]
Author Jude Collins
How to deal with terrible pain
I never stop being amazed at the human capacity to absorb suffering and to move on from terrible injustices. Below is an edited version of an interview I did last week with Mary Enright, the mother of Terry Enright. And if you don’t remember the case of Terry Enright, get your heart checked – something […]
How to deal with terrible pain
I never stop being amazed at the human capacity to absorb suffering and to move on from terrible injustices. Below is an edited version of an interview I did last week with Mary Enright, the mother of Terry Enright. And if you don’t remember the case of Terry Enright, get your heart checked – something […]
Well hello, tourist! Wanna good time?
Arlene Foster is excited. She’s in charge of tourism here and apparently last night they had quite a do, with Van Morrison and all, to push the north as a tourist destination. Radio Ulster/Raidio Uladh this morning interviewed her and Dermot Murnaghan, late of this parish, so they could both express their excitement and remind […]
Well hello, tourist! Wanna good time?
Arlene Foster is excited. She’s in charge of tourism here and apparently last night they had quite a do, with Van Morrison and all, to push the north as a tourist destination. Radio Ulster/Raidio Uladh this morning interviewed her and Dermot Murnaghan, late of this parish, so they could both express their excitement and remind […]
Advice to government: bring your cheque-book
A bit of a barney in the Dail yesterday, by all accounts. It seems that three years ago, government advisers were handed over one million euro of tax-payers’ money; at present, that has shrunk to an annual € 576,000. Hooray, hooray, hooray. Only then a barney was raised by Gerry Adams and then Micheal Martin […]
Advice to government: bring your cheque-book
A bit of a barney in the Dail yesterday, by all accounts. It seems that three years ago, government advisers were handed over one million euro of tax-payers’ money; at present, that has shrunk to an annual € 576,000. Hooray, hooray, hooray. Only then a barney was raised by Gerry Adams and then Micheal Martin […]
The Costa Concordia – no, Virginia, it’s NOT like the Titanic
Quite a sight it made: the luxury liner Costa Concordia on its side like some giant mechanical whale, beached with no hope of escape. Who’s to blame? The owners for not seeing to it that everything was shipshape? The captain for sailing recklessly close to shore to give a bravura salute to those watching from […]
The Costa Concordia – no, Virginia, it’s NOT like the Titanic
Quite a sight it made: the luxury liner Costa Concordia on its side like some giant mechanical whale, beached with no hope of escape. Who’s to blame? The owners for not seeing to it that everything was shipshape? The captain for sailing recklessly close to shore to give a bravura salute to those watching from […]
BBC’s Sunday Sequence – better and better
Sunday Sequence’s William Crawley If BBC Radio Ulster/Raidio Uladh’s Sunday Sequence gets any better, it’ll be a must-listen and half the church-going population will arrive late. This morning it had David Vance and Finola Meredith on, talking about those recent images of American soldiers urinating on dead Taliban. To say they differed would be to […]