Jude Collins

The Oscars – Ireland had one win, but our hopes were so much higher than that. Are we born losers? Then there was Saturday Night Live mocking Irish accents and talking about our drinking habits. Should we have to smile and take a joke?   The actors are coming back to Ireland from LA, the […]

  Gary Lineker spoke up for the Human Race when he condemned the British Government’s incitement to hate asylum seekers, and dump them in Rwanda. He showed more courage than any of the posturing braggarts in the Tory party and the mostly timid MPs of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.   The Archbishop of York spoke […]

  I read in THE IRISH TIMES today that travellers on the underground in Kiev can enjoy views of the  Cliffs of Moher and other havens of peace and tranquility on posters paid for by  Irish taxpayers.   At the same time the Irish Government has rubbished the work of Eamon de Valera, Frank Aiken […]

      I just discovered in comments on a Blog I wrote a week or two ago asking whether I was the Donal Kennedy he knew in the Connolly Association in the 1980s.   I remain in the same body though rather less robust than I was then.   It’s a matter of opinion […]

  Pat and I, it goes without saying, are devoted to our viewing public. So when one of them contacted us suggesting we clarify the Windsor Framework, we leaped to the challenge. All you ever wanted to know and were afraid to ask. Gary Lineker – he was an England footballer and is currently the […]

For the most part, I find that experts tend to be useless at explaining  the field in which they’re expert. Especially computer experts, who have a tendency to look at you as if you were a moron because you don’t understand all their technical jargon. So given that the Windsor Framework is so much talked […]

    Once upon a time Albert Einstein lectured at Princeton University. And Eamon de Valera led a rational, ethical government who bound up a nation’s wounds,  saw off the threat of local Fascists, saved his country from world war, and kept faith with the Covenant of the League of Nations when most of its […]

                                                       Dispute with Engineering Staff – by Donal Kennedy I recently re-discovered the document below amongst my heirlooms and some readers may have copies of the document, typed on […]

March 7, 2023 Phil, NYC & Washington The Financial Times described a move by the UK  Caucus in Congress to expedite US-UK trade negotiations as a public relations coup linked to the release of the Windsor Framework document.  The ‘special relationship’ bill would give the President “fast track” powers to accelerate any US-UK trade negotiations  that have  languished since […]

    In 1976 the Governor General of Australia dismissed the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, and was praised for his “Courage” by the then Prince of Wales   Wikipedia may not be Holy Writ, but a reading of it would make one infer that Whitlam was an outstandingly brilliant and reasonable progressive democrat and that […]