Jude Collins

The local Council Elections is a topic that has garnered a significant amount of attention in recent days, mostly because it was overshadowed in recent months by the anniversary of the GFA, Biden’s visit, the Windsor Framework, and the coronation of Charles.  It was brought into sharp focus in the past week and days by […]

Well now – that went rather well, didn’t it? Looking more and more like the Manchester City of Irish politics, Sinn Féin swept aside opposition in this week’s local election and will almost certainly be the party with most council seats in NEI. You could see how pleased Michelle O’Neill and Mary Lou McDonald were […]

    As you’ve probably noticed by now, they have begun counting the votes for local councils here in NEI. Everyone agrees that the powers of local councils have nothing to do with the constitutional question, except that they have loads to do with the constitutional question. Stop swearing, be patient – Pat and I […]

  Here’s a story for the day that’s in it. There was this woman who’d fallen on hard times. Her husband had left her, she was struggling to raise three children, it was becoming increasingly difficult to pay her mortgage.  Distraught, she went into a church and knelt. “Oh God, I’m really up against it. […]

      I watched Jeffrey Donaldson and I watched Michelle O’Neill on TV, in the lead-up up to tomorrow’s local elections. Some commentator described Michelle as adopting a presidential style. That wasn’t far off the mark. She was shown talking to babies, shaking hands with working people, smiling in a joyous kind of way.  […]

  My name is Ciarán MacAirt and I’m the founder of the charity Paper Trail (Legacy Archive Research). Paper Trail exists to offer free and independent advocacy support to victims and survivors of the conflict across these two islands. It is a great privilege for me to speak here tonight in Pettigo.  During the course […]

        Meritless Professors at American Universities, Jerkoff Jesuits, Cultural Pundits who wouldn’t know a Rood Screen from a Blue Movie  nor Extreme Unction from the Cure d’Ars. One fatuous fathead thought that Catholics believed that Priests turned water into wine during Mass.  I kid you not!   Today the destruction of    […]

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has vowed that he and his party will ‘stand firm’ regarding the Windsor Framework. He has also talked about other people ‘stealing’ DUP votes.  Is he cutting off the route back to Stormont? Or will the British government give him a sweetener that’ll allow him to claim victory? In the South, Sinn […]

“” My cousin Michael Leonard (24yrs) from Pettigo in Co Donegal was shot dead by the RUC in Co Fermanagh on Thursday evening  17th May 1973. His father, Maurice, died in 1991 and his mother, Maureen, died in 1997.They grieved for their son for the rest of their lives. His girlfriend Mena, to whom he […]

  Six months ago Angela Merkel publicly boasted that that her 2014 co-authorship of the Minsk Agreements, accepted by President Putin in good faith, was to lull the Russians into a false sense of security  so that the Ukraine junta could arm, train and expand its forces to make war on Russia.   I had […]