Jude Collins

I would not want to be standing in the elections as a Sinn Fein candidate when the chickens come home to roost.   Well well well , let us just take a moment of reflection to see were the parties stand on Palestine.   The first word that springs to mind is hypocrisy, the second […]

  That idea can only be held by those ignorant of history. In our long history we were neither injured nor insulted by the Russians. In modern history, Britain used Ireland as a safety apron, and prepared towipe her population out should one of Britain’s continental enemies effect a landing in Ireland. In 1911 the […]

    If on the Day of Judgement my Divine Judge is as merciful to me as the camera is I’ll have a privileged cloud in Heaven.   It amazes me that professional, even mercenary, correspondents in THE IRISHTIMES choose to show the worst of their many faces to their readers.   One historian presents […]

So how was the visit of various Irish political parties to Washington, including the DUP, the UUP, Sinn Féin and Alastair McDonnell (his party, we’re told, boycotted the shindig) – was their journey fruitful?   No and yes. No, in that not a word or a half-syllable of what they said will deter Joe Biden […]

  There were no elections or plebiscites in Palestine nor other territories seized by the British and French during the Great War, nor in those seized  from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Invented “nations”  Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia have fallen apart more than once and the Britain’s  purported justification  for involvement in the war “the self-determination of nations” […]

Charlie Bird, the former RTÉ journalist, died yesterday. I knew him in 1966-67 and then again, very briefly, in 2011. In 1966-67, I taught in a Dublin school called Sandymount High School. Charlie was one of my students, and I can say without fear of contradiction that he was one of the weakest students I […]

Frank Hester has a lot pf money. That’s why he gave £10 million to the Tory party. Needless to say, none of the Tories thought Frank was any other than a loaded boy scout, honourable and upright and rich. In their exclusive clubs, if someone raised Frank’s name in the same sentence as racist,  the […]

FELTWELL – WINSTON CHURCHILL’S GENOCIDAL WET DREAM                 From June 1940 onwards Germany occupied Continental Europe’s Atlantic Coast from the North of Norway to the the Franco/Spanish border. Britain, which for some twenty years had used chemical weapons to “police” Iraq and other “barbarian” territories,and approved of such […]

Dear God!   THE IRISH TIMES published letters trashing its advice to the people of Ireland.   Is this a record?   Nearly 5  years before  the people enacted our Constitution, on the advice of De Valera,  and ignored that paper’s warning (in February 1933 ) that a return of  Fianna Fail to power would […]

  President Joe Biden has declared that Rafah is a red line which must not be crossed. Netenyahu has said he’s going to finish the job of destroying Hamas. Is Biden playing politics, or has he, however belatedly, seen the light? The Oscars happened last night and Cillian Murphy got his Oscar. He also spoke […]