Author Jude Collins

Good news – I’ve heard from my old chum Noel Doran again. Noel, as you probably know, is not just the editor of that venerable organ The Irish News, he’s also one of my blog’s most faithful readers. This time he contacted me to point out that I was wrong, so wrong to suggest in […]

Good news – I’ve heard from my old chum Noel Doran again. Noel, as you probably know, is not just the editor of that venerable organ The Irish News, he’s also one of my blog’s most faithful readers. This time he contacted me to point out that I was wrong, so wrong to suggest in […]

That venerable organ The Irish News is this morning excited by the fact that Sinn Féin’s Raymond McCartney is to be the deputy chair of the new Justice Committee. This committee will keep an eye on the Justice Minister and see that he does the right thing in all cases. The VO is excited because, […]

That venerable organ The Irish News is this morning excited by the fact that Sinn Féin’s Raymond McCartney is to be the deputy chair of the new Justice Committee. This committee will keep an eye on the Justice Minister and see that he does the right thing in all cases. The VO is excited because, […]

The bomb that went off near the MI5 headquarters in Holywood last night didn’t do much damage but it does bring into focus a number of issues. One seized on greedily this morning by Alban Magennis of the SDLP is the comparison between the dissident republicans, who it’s presumed planted the bomb, and the IRA […]

The bomb that went off near the MI5 headquarters in Holywood last night didn’t do much damage but it does bring into focus a number of issues. One seized on greedily this morning by Alban Magennis of the SDLP is the comparison between the dissident republicans, who it’s presumed planted the bomb, and the IRA […]

What was it Churchill said about democracy – the worst imaginable system of government apart from all the others. Or words to that effect. A quick check of a number of Irish politicians, north and south, makes you wonder if Churchill wasn’t being too complimentary. And a look at the Ten Greatest Irish People list […]

What was it Churchill said about democracy – the worst imaginable system of government apart from all the others. Or words to that effect. A quick check of a number of Irish politicians, north and south, makes you wonder if Churchill wasn’t being too complimentary. And a look at the Ten Greatest Irish People list […]

I’ve been away for a few days and it’s reassuring and dismaying in equal measure to come back and hear the flat northern vowels being exchanged once again. But I never know I’m really back until I hear a politician saying something truly funny. Tom Elliott was in good form this morning, reassuring anyone who’d […]

I’ve been away for a few days and it’s reassuring and dismaying in equal measure to come back and hear the flat northern vowels being exchanged once again. But I never know I’m really back until I hear a politician saying something truly funny. Tom Elliott was in good form this morning, reassuring anyone who’d […]