Jude Collins

    In a thriving democracy with an engaged electorate, politicians always need to be mindful of their actions, otherwise they face the possibility of electoral defeat. In Ireland, I’m particularly concerned not only with what some politicians can get away with, but how their political career can sometimes thrive afterwards.   One can accept […]

There used to be a semi-joke told in Derry, about the young man who approached a young lady and asked if she would dance with him. Her reply was succinct:”Take me sister – Ah’m sweatin’ ” Heather Humphries may appreciate that one for two reasons. In the first place, we’re told, she’s from the northern […]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that Fintan O’Toole is in possession of the biggest brain in Ireland. At regular intervals, that jumbo-size intellect is seen in his Irish Times  columns, explaining to us how to understand  the world that would otherwise bother and bewilder us. There’s a prime example in today’s Irish Times. It’s […]

    America is now Great Again. Donald John Trump, convicted felon, is democratically elected President of the United States.    America is now Great Again.  President Trump received Vladimir Putin, war criminal, in the United States of A. on a Red Carpet, as a friend.    America is now Great Again. Mr Trump bullied Mr Zelenski, President of Ukraine, in […]

  So President Zelinskyy is heading back to the White House – but this time he’s taking his EU mates plus Starmer as back-up. Will Trump tell them all they have no cards, or will he secretly be delighted that the EU is prepared to bear the burden of looking after Ukraine? And what about […]

By now the world and its mother knows that Mairead McGuinness, the Fine Gael party nominee to run for President, has dropped out for health reason. The Irish Times has described Heather Humphries as ‘charismatic’: would she be a good choice to replace Mairead? And if so, would she not suffer for being seen as […]

  This is the fifth interview with notable people about their views on a border poll and Irish reunification. Kevin Meagher has been part of Ireland’s Future and is an important factor in the move towards a border referendum. 

There was an excellent article in the Irish Times  by Kathy Sheridan. It was about 35 Gareth Sheridan ( no relation, I assume) who has declared himself as a potential candidate seeking nomination support from local councils. Ms Sheridan asks the very reasonable question : why would a young guy who’s already a tech millionaire and […]

If the British people say ‘Are we there yet?’, it won’t be because they’re on their holiers, it’s because the depths of Brexit seem to be reducing their economy to a wilderness. There’s a moral there for those who think a border poll might be better sooner rather than later.  In the recent Feile interview […]

Does Keir Starmer’s hypocrisy disqualify him from leading the Labour Party? Well, no and yes. There are Westminster politicians who might claim their hypocrisy is just as big and blatant as Starmer’s (remember B Johnson and that promise on the side of a bus?) but none of them really reach Starmer’s  fake integriy. Remember his […]