Author Jude Collins

Barack drinks the black in Moneygall        1.    He hasn’t got a drink problem. That’s to say, when he pulls on a pint, he doesn’t leave a              moustache of froth on his upper lip, or if he does he makes sure it’s clear before the cameras see […]

Barack drinks the black in Moneygall        1.    He hasn’t got a drink problem. That’s to say, when he pulls on a pint, he doesn’t leave a              moustache of froth on his upper lip, or if he does he makes sure it’s clear before the cameras see […]

News flash: President Obama has cancelled his flight to Monegall today, not because of high winds but because he’s read and listened to our commentators on the queen’s visit last week. “Having thought carefully about the arguments presented” the President said, “I am convinced that their central message is a valid one. And so I […]

News flash: President Obama has cancelled his flight to Monegall today, not because of high winds but because he’s read and listened to our commentators on the queen’s visit last week. “Having thought carefully about the arguments presented” the President said, “I am convinced that their central message is a valid one. And so I […]

Like most of us I have a sharp ear for a compliment, so when I got a message yesterday asking “Are you the only one with a titter of wit?”  you may be sure I gave it my full attention. I assumed – rightly as it turned out – that the comment referred to my […]

Like most of us I have a sharp ear for a compliment, so when I got a message yesterday asking “Are you the only one with a titter of wit?”  you may be sure I gave it my full attention. I assumed – rightly as it turned out – that the comment referred to my […]

Nil nisi bonum de mortuis dicere –  speak only good of the dead – is a difficult command to follow. In fact impossible. There are clearly people who are dead – try Hitler, Stalin, some of my old teachers – who test that injunction to destruction.  But they’re dead quite some time now and that […]

Nil nisi bonum de mortuis dicere –  speak only good of the dead – is a difficult command to follow. In fact impossible. There are clearly people who are dead – try Hitler, Stalin, some of my old teachers – who test that injunction to destruction.  But they’re dead quite some time now and that […]

Dear Gerry, You missed it, you really really should have come. It was brilliant –  I was wearing this green dress and I could tell,  everybody was looking at me – phenomenal stuff!  Granted those tables  were a bit useless  – reminded me of the hotel where Peter and I had our wedding reception. But […]

Dear Gerry, You missed it, you really really should have come. It was brilliant –  I was wearing this green dress and I could tell,  everybody was looking at me – phenomenal stuff!  Granted those tables  were a bit useless  – reminded me of the hotel where Peter and I had our wedding reception. But […]