Jude Collins

  One morning in February 1982 I turned on  BBC Radio 4  and was unsurprised when it led an item to do with the Press Complaints Commission.   Some nine months previously THE TIMES lead story read “The Roman Catholics  buried Robert Sands yesterday as Protestants lamented their 2,000 dead from 12 years of Terrorism……..the […]

  While tens of thousands of Israelis gather on the streets of Tel Aviv calling for early elections and Netanyahu to step down,what could this mean for the future direction of a new government ,for Palestinians still living under illegal occupation,for Israeli society and Palestinians living in historic Palestine suffering under apartheid discrimination? First lets […]

    A new study has estimated that the cost of a united Ireland could potentially rise to 20 billion euros per annum. This figure appears to be quite alarming but given some of the ludicrous assumptions such as a new Ireland covering pension costs – this report needs to be treated with a large […]

A recent study by Prof John Fitzgerald and some others claims that a reunited Ireland would  cost  the  South €20 billion  per year for 20 years. So is it time we faced the hard facts and stopped chasing a pipe dream?   Do you warm to Simon Harris, the replacement man for Leo Varadkar? Well, […]

  Those of us that haven’t been totally de-sensitized by constant exposure  to slaughter will continue to reel at the naked cruelty of what is being done by Israel to the Palestinian people. Over 30,000 deaths in a few months, many of them women and children. No buildings are spared – hospitals, refugee camps, homes, […]

As you may possibly have noticed, the DUP is currently undergoing a spot of bother. What are the implications of this charge against Jeffrey Donaldson? Will the DUP appoint a soft or a hard replacement? The Easter Proclamation was read again during ceremonies outside Dublin’s GPO yesterday. To an outsider, it would have appeared that […]

The first thing to remember, for your own sake as well as the sake of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, is that the now former DUP leader Is Innocent. Because he’s been charged with rape and “other historical sexual offences” doesn’t mean he’s guilty of anything. But the fact that he was arrested and charged will make […]

  Is the UK falling apart? The Scots, before the game against NEI, loudly booed the playing of ‘God Save the King’ . Just business or was it personal? The   Tories are looking at some very scary opinion polls.Are they planning to buy off Nigel Farage and the Reform Party threat by making Nigel a […]

        The piece below was inspired by an article with the above title by Joe Horgan a columnist with the Irish Post in London and was addressed as a letter by me to its excellent Editor and personal friend of mine Malcolm Rogers. Unfortunately pressure of space did not allow for its […]

    You can tell there’s an election not too far away when you check the opinion columns in the Irish Times. I suspect the editor of that newspaper doesn’t have to press-gang columnists into writing anti-republican pieces, but they’d have to get up early in the morning to be there at the anti-republican barricade […]