Jude Collins

I’ve just had a brainwave: Stephen Collins could make a fortune as a stand-up comic. No, really. You start to read his column with laughter the last thing on your mind. After the first ten words you’re plunged into a glorious fit of giggling. Like Stephen in The Irish Times last Friday. Under the sober […]

                                    The (London) TIMES today, Saturday 17 December 2022 on pages 10 and 11 carried a  picture taken in October2021 at Chevening  the official Country Home of the UK Foreign  Secretary.    The accompanying storyline says that staff […]

      Who would ever have believed in a million years or in a parallel  universe that in the year 2022 anyone could write an article comparing Israel’s Nation State with Ukraine’s resurgent fascism?     Well let’s begin shall we?   Let us see if there is a comparison    Let is see […]

In last Tuesday’s Irish Times, Fintan O’Toole has an article entitled ‘We speak the cúpla focal of United Irishese’ In the sub-heading, we were told there’s a big difference between believing ‘in’ something and believing you are then required to do something about it.  I’m not sure about the main headline, but the sub-heading is […]

      Though never a member of any political party, I’ve always regarded myself as a generic Sinn Feiner and once included under that description supporters of the Irish Labour Party, all supporters of Fianna Fail and even some supporters and members of Fine Gael.    I had some sympathy for Sinn Fein, even […]

Was Rishi Sunak’s visit to our stateen an effort to establish himself as the strong unionist figure holding the UK together – or just a photo-op? The UK has strikes on every side – nurses strike, rail strike, teachers and lecturers strike – and so far, the British public seem to be in sympathy with […]

  An Cheist*: Who described Winston Churchill as the most honoured and honourable man to walk the stage of human history in the time in which we live?     Freagra**: U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on 9 April 1963 when he conferred  Honorary US Citizenship on the old scoundrel.     According to a recent […]

  A lot of criticism has been directed towards Qatar in the midst of them being World Cup hosts. Chief amongst these criticisms would be their human rights abuses in terms of how they’ve treated migrant workers, homosexuals and women. Like most people I abhor discrimination and mistreatment of other humans on any basis. With […]

  I’ve never written about 1966. . But that year made such a lasting impression on Ireland’s leading intellectual, Fintan O’Toole, that, when commissioned to write an informed reflection on the 1916 Rising he replied with his recollections of its Golden Jubilee when he was but a lad of eight summers. O’Toole had made no […]

  But in describing them as young prisoners he helps in the distortion of Rory O,Connor’s role by Neil Jordan in the movie Michael Collins, By the time of the murder of O’Connor, Mellows, Barrett and McKelvey, senior figures in the republican movement , the Provisional Government appointed by the British had murdered low-ranking Volunteers […]