Author Jude Collins

Martin and Sean and that awkward envelope

Well – that was a debate. No need for the strong coffee or smelling salts to keep the eyes open until the end of RTÉ’s Frontline  programme with Pat Kenny.  How did they do? 1.     Higgins: he kept his head down for the most part, only raising it to go on about ‘a new Ireland’ […]

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Martin and Sean and that awkward envelope

Well – that was a debate. No need for the strong coffee or smelling salts to keep the eyes open until the end of RTÉ’s Frontline  programme with Pat Kenny.  How did they do? 1.     Higgins: he kept his head down for the most part, only raising it to go on about ‘a new Ireland’ […]

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Tasteless dress-up and morality

Apparently there’s a brouhaha in Derry about some youngsters getting dressed up in Osama bin Laden outfits. Quite a number of people are upset by it – they see it as being in very poor taste. Well I suppose if I had had a relative or friend killed in the attack on the Twin Towers, […]

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Tasteless dress-up and morality

Apparently there’s a brouhaha in Derry about some youngsters getting dressed up in Osama bin Laden outfits. Quite a number of people are upset by it – they see it as being in very poor taste. Well I suppose if I had had a relative or friend killed in the attack on the Twin Towers, […]

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Money and the Áras and having a good laugh

Money: it would drive you mad if you let it. Can’t live without it, can’t live er um, well actually most of us figure we could live quite nicely thank you with it. Last weekend, Edwina Currie was on Stephen Nolan’s BBC Radio Five Live show expressing her serious, serious doubt that anyone in Britain […]

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Money and the Áras and having a good laugh

Money: it would drive you mad if you let it. Can’t live without it, can’t live er um, well actually most of us figure we could live quite nicely thank you with it. Last weekend, Edwina Currie was on Stephen Nolan’s BBC Radio Five Live show expressing her serious, serious doubt that anyone in Britain […]

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Gaddafi: bet he’s sorry now!

Well, good news tonight or what! Isn’t it wonderful? Mind you I’m against killing people as a general rule but some people you just have to, well, kill them.  There’s no other word for it. For the sake of the world. If Muammar Gaddafi had had his way it would have been Libya today, Russia […]

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Gaddafi: bet he’s sorry now!

Well, good news tonight or what! Isn’t it wonderful? Mind you I’m against killing people as a general rule but some people you just have to, well, kill them.  There’s no other word for it. For the sake of the world. If Muammar Gaddafi had had his way it would have been Libya today, Russia […]

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What, me Fianna Fail?

   Well, you got to admit he’s a fresh face. Not a face that’s startlingly handsome but then this presidential election was never a beauty contest, was it? No no no. But Sean Gallagher is a face that most of us haven’t seen before. Whereas Michael Higgins, Gay Mitchell, Dana – well, the phrase “a […]

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What, me Fianna Fail?

   Well, you got to admit he’s a fresh face. Not a face that’s startlingly handsome but then this presidential election was never a beauty contest, was it? No no no. But Sean Gallagher is a face that most of us haven’t seen before. Whereas Michael Higgins, Gay Mitchell, Dana – well, the phrase “a […]

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