Jude Collins

≈   The only legitimate Government in Ireland from January 1919 was Dail Eireann and the electorate renewed its authority in 1921. Local Government elections for County Councils, Municipalities and smaller councils in 1920 resulted in the vast majority supporting the Republic. The Irish Republican Brotherhood previous to the establishment of Dail Eireann, was of […]

To say Northern Irish Unionism is in a bit of a pickle is an understatement of the most epic proportions.  Friday morning, one minute after midnight the Secretary of State for this little mess of a place may call a general election because one party refuses to sit in the Executive, essentially paralysing its decision-making […]

It must take little to upset him.   It took a murderous attack on the Crimean Bridge celebrated by the Ukraine Junta and its NATO sponsors with a recording of Marilyn Monroe’s greeting to JFK’s on the latter’s birthday on President Putin on HIS 70th Birthday, to provoke the latter to remove one of the […]

    On 21st January 1919  the Inaugural Meeting of Dail Eireann had a small attendance.  Every candidate elected in Ireland the month before was invited. The 26 Unionists and the 6 “Nationalists” elected boycotted the National Parliament and 37 of the 73 Republicans were in British jails- many accused of a “German” plot which might […]

TREATIES ARE AGREED BETWEEN STATES WHICH RECOGNISE EACH OTHER. THERE WAS NO TREATY SIGNED IN LONDON BY THE DEMOCRATICALLY ESTABLISHED AND FUNCTIONING IRISH REPUBLIC AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WHICH WAS USURPING POWER IN IRELAND.   Dail Eireann acquiesced by a small majority in its acceptance. It was seen as a Mafia-type offer which the  delegates […]

  Its near 700 pages are very interesting, and I’d recommend them to patients, pensioners and prisoners spared the distractions of parenthood or work.  Garret was a brilliant man, and the success of Aer Lingus over some decades was largely his doing. He was also an educator teaching statistics in Rathmines Tech and Economics in […]

And so we say farewell to B Johnson,  as he fades into the background again. The man of the moment is Rishi Sunak, who, we are told, will calm the markets. Will that be enough? Are there Tories who simply hate him? And what of Micheál Martin? I say he’s moving out of the Taoiseach […]

  In or about December 2008 I wrote the following* which was published in various fringe papers –   “On January 28 1919, exactly one week after the first meeting of Dail Eireann, a young   man remarked in his diary –   ‘Just one thing occurs to me to mention before I put this […]

For those of us who like to pick through the entrails of politics, the past week has been….marvellous. Boris the prince coming over the water to the rescue, Penny, beautiful and named after a battleship, Rishi with his non-dom wife and LOADSAMONEY. Remember these days, folks. We may not see their like again.. Meanwhile, back […]

        I might explain that I passed it for re-publication because Micheal Martin is proposing the erection of a statue of Michael Collins in Dublin. Cromwell sought to be painted warts and all. Collins won the hearts of the nation during the war of independence. In the last months of his life […]