Author Jude Collins

That’s it, then. Matter closed. After days, weeks of sniper fire from all angles,  the Mary McArdle affair is now closed. She will not be resigning.  Those who had an eye to adjusting or removing the present power-sharing arrangements used the pain of  Ann Travers as cover while they launched salvo after salvo at Sinn […]

TARA Mills is a presenter on BBC Radio  Ulster’s ‘Good Morning Ulster’ (so good they named it twice) and this morning she suggested to her colleague Gareth Gordon that an awful lot of people would be shocked. Gareth agreed. The news they both figured people would rock a lot of people back on their heels […]

TARA Mills is a presenter on BBC Radio  Ulster’s ‘Good Morning Ulster’ (so good they named it twice) and this morning she suggested to her colleague Gareth Gordon that an awful lot of people would be shocked. Gareth agreed. The news they both figured people would rock a lot of people back on their heels […]

I’m sitting at this minute listening to BBC’s The Nolan Show (again) and if there was ever any doubt in  my mind that the death of Mary Travers is being used as a weapon to beat Sinn Féin with, it’s gone now. Gregory Campbell – who else? – is on and he’s been asked if  […]

I’ve never liked Senator David Norris.  His accent, the way he speaks as if he were trying to make a point to a group of hard-of-hearing people several fields away,  and of course the Joyce thing.  Yes, he’s entitled to like James Joyce.  Great writer.  But while the rest of us just read his books,  […]

I’ve never liked Senator David Norris.  His accent, the way he speaks as if he were trying to make a point to a group of hard-of-hearing people several fields away,  and of course the Joyce thing.  Yes, he’s entitled to like James Joyce.  Great writer.  But while the rest of us just read his books,  […]

Gregory Campbell was on the Nolan Show this morning on BBC Radio Ulster (yes I know it has a huge listenership in Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan). Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly was also on the show and he  called Gregory a dinosaur. That’s because Gregory was giving out about the appointment of Sinn Féin’s Mary McArdle […]

Gregory Campbell was on the Nolan Show this morning on BBC Radio Ulster (yes I know it has a huge listenership in Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan). Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly was also on the show and he  called Gregory a dinosaur. That’s because Gregory was giving out about the appointment of Sinn Féin’s Mary McArdle […]

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there is a difference between people and their politics. I don’t mean by that the obvious, that politics divides people. It can and it does. If I believe in capitalism and you believe in socialism, if I value union with Britain and you yearn for Irish ‘independence’ (I […]

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there is a difference between people and their politics. I don’t mean by that the obvious, that politics divides people. It can and it does. If I believe in capitalism and you believe in socialism, if I value union with Britain and you yearn for Irish ‘independence’ (I […]