The Donegal Gaelic football team shouldn’t feel too bad about losing to Dublin in Croke Park yesterday, and not just because they made it a very close thing until the final period of the match. They should feel good because they provided a national service at Croker yesterday. They gave us all a laugh. No, […]
Author Jude Collins
Donegal Gaelic football team – they gave us a laugh or two
The Donegal Gaelic football team shouldn’t feel too bad about losing to Dublin in Croke Park yesterday, and not just because they made it a very close thing until the final period of the match. They should feel good because they provided a national service at Croker yesterday. They gave us all a laugh. No, […]
The Van der Lendens and what sort of person is your great-granny?
The recent arrest of lay magistrate Delia Van der Lenden and her retired Dutch naval officer husband was what you might describe as an own goal by the PSNI. Mrs Van der Lenden said after their release that either the PSNI targeted them for “malicious reasons” or they had lousy intelligence. I’d say most people […]
The Van der Lendens and what sort of person is your great-granny?
The recent arrest of lay magistrate Delia Van der Lenden and her retired Dutch naval officer husband was what you might describe as an own goal by the PSNI. Mrs Van der Lenden said after their release that either the PSNI targeted them for “malicious reasons” or they had lousy intelligence. I’d say most people […]
Welsh Independence – doing the sums
Did you see that little news item about Wales around the beginning of August? It featured a report issued by researchers in Harvard which argued that if Wales had been independent since 1990, the people of that country would be nearly 40% better off today. “Opponents of independence and further devolution have often misused […]
Welsh Independence – doing the sums
Did you see that little news item about Wales around the beginning of August? It featured a report issued by researchers in Harvard which argued that if Wales had been independent since 1990, the people of that country would be nearly 40% better off today. “Opponents of independence and further devolution have often misused the […]
Campbell College: buddy, can you spare €12,500?
With good news you gotta take the bad news. So good news this morning. It appears that Campbell College in Belfast is launching a major drive to recruit boarding pupils from the south. Excellent. The more that people north and south get to know about each other, the less likely they are to believe in […]
Campbell College: buddy, can you spare €12,500?
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Jim Wells and the GAA – the guy can’t help it
It’s my guess that when Jim Wells goes home in the evening, he’s as nice a man as you could find. Not a bit stiff or tight-lipped or monotone. Chances are he’s a ray of sunshine, glancing cheerfully off loved ones and domestic appliances in the Wells household. Why, you ask me, don’t the rest […]
Jim Wells and the GAA – the guy can’t help it
It’s my guess that when Jim Wells goes home in the evening, he’s as nice a man as you could find. Not a bit stiff or tight-lipped or monotone. Chances are he’s a ray of sunshine, glancing cheerfully off loved ones and domestic appliances in the Wells household. Why, you ask me, don’t the rest […]