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 put it mildly. Finola […]
Author Jude Collins
The royal visit – because She’s worth it?
I’ve been accused of having a thing for QE2, so to even mention the woman who makes men walk backwards out of rooms is to invite criticism. But given the latest Irish tourism figures, she has to be factored in. Do you remember those glorious days last May? When the people of the south of […]
The royal visit – because She’s worth it?
I’ve been accused of having a thing for QE2, so to even mention the woman who makes men walk backwards out of rooms is to invite criticism. But given the latest Irish tourism figures, she has to be factored in. Do you remember those glorious days last May? When the people of the south of […]
Should Britain chair our examination of the past?
There are areas I feel uncomfortable talking about and one is, how we should respond to the victims of our Troubles. My unease springs from the fact that I’ve been lucky enough not to have lost a loved one, and when you haven’t suffered that kind of pain you don’t really know what’s involved. That said, […]
Should Britain chair our examination of the past?
There are areas I feel uncomfortable talking about and one is, how we should respond to the victims of our Troubles. My unease springs from the fact that I’ve been lucky enough not to have lost a loved one, and when you haven’t suffered that kind of pain you don’t really know what’s involved. That said, […]
Enough generalities – the Village area can deal sectarianism a deadly blow
It’s a long way from the Village area of Belfast to Stormont. You can work at an official level towards a shared – and improved – future, but you can’t legislate for the conversion of sectarian morons like those who attacked young James Turley the other day and left him for dead. Why did they […]
Enough generalities – the Village area can deal sectarianism a deadly blow
It’s a long way from the Village area of Belfast to Stormont. You can work at an official level towards a shared – and improved – future, but you can’t legislate for the conversion of sectarian morons like those who attacked young James Turley the other day and left him for dead. Why did they […]
Whither Sinn Féin?
Where is Sinn Féin going? “Nowhere, in the south anyway” was the answer Eoghan Harris gave, a few short years back. Then at the last election Sinn Féin almost trebled its numbers in the Dail. Even this was a minor disappointment for some of the more ambitious party members. Writing in The Irish Times today, […]
Whither Sinn Féin?
Where is Sinn Féin going? “Nowhere, in the south anyway” was the answer Eoghan Harris gave, a few short years back. Then at the last election Sinn Féin almost trebled its numbers in the Dail. Even this was a minor disappointment for some of the more ambitious party members. Writing in The Irish Times today, […]
Is David Cameron West Lothian in disguise?
Scotland has always interested me, and not just because, like Sarah Palin with Russia, I can see it from my upstairs window. My mother, a Donegal woman, used remember the excitement of her “Scotchy” cousins coming each summer and sleeping anywhere and everywhere in the house. Back in Scotland, one of them played for Glasgow […]