Author Jude Collins

There are times when I can’t watch what appears on TV. I groan and look out the window or at the floor or at the ceiling – anywhere but the screen.  And there are times when I think our society – the Western World – is doomed. Like the Roman Empire, it’ll crumble and dissolve […]

There are times when I can’t watch what appears on TV. I groan and look out the window or at the floor or at the ceiling – anywhere but the screen.  And there are times when I think our society – the Western World – is doomed. Like the Roman Empire, it’ll crumble and dissolve […]

Yesterday’s Murdoch hearings – that’s what in essence they were – had so many fascinating features it’s hard to know where to start, but let’s try with the cry of the shaving-foam thrower. You didn’t know he had a cry? Apparently so. As he swung his arm and just before Murdoch’s wife whacked him good […]

Yesterday’s Murdoch hearings – that’s what in essence they were – had so many fascinating features it’s hard to know where to start, but let’s try with the cry of the shaving-foam thrower. You didn’t know he had a cry? Apparently so. As he swung his arm and just before Murdoch’s wife whacked him good […]

Sean Hoare Curiouser and curiouser. So far  it’s been strictly skeletons tumbling out of the News International cupboard; now a dead man has fallen out. Sean Hoare was a showbiz journalist with The News of the World and he was the first person to blow the whistle and accuse Andy Coulson of arranging phone hacking. Coulson […]

Sean Hoare Curiouser and curiouser. So far  it’s been strictly skeletons tumbling out of the News International cupboard; now a dead man has fallen out. Sean Hoare was a showbiz journalist with The News of the World and he was the first person to blow the whistle and accuse Andy Coulson of arranging phone hacking. Coulson […]

Oh God, here we go again. I’m pleased that Darren Clarke as a fellow-Tyrone-man, a fellow-Ulsterman and a fellow-Irishman has scooped the British Open golf title. It’s a game too riddled with silly jargon  – birdies and eagles and bogeys  – to be of much interest to me, but if someone’s going to win, it’s […]

Oh God, here we go again. I’m pleased that Darren Clarke as a fellow-Tyrone-man, a fellow-Ulsterman and a fellow-Irishman has scooped the British Open golf title. It’s a game too riddled with silly jargon  – birdies and eagles and bogeys  – to be of much interest to me, but if someone’s going to win, it’s […]

Bishop John Magee I haven’t been following the report  on  child abuse and its supervision  (or lack of) from Cloyne diocese. It seems, however, that some clergy in that diocese failed to follow the policy that would have protected children.  Worse than failed, in fact – in one case a bishop appears to have written […]

Bishop John Magee I haven’t been following the report  on  child abuse and its supervision  (or lack of) from Cloyne diocese. It seems, however, that some clergy in that diocese failed to follow the policy that would have protected children.  Worse than failed, in fact – in one case a bishop appears to have written […]