Jude Collins

    I happened to be in Galway on the Twelfth and so I took myself to the Townhall theatre to see the world premiere of the new documentary ‘Gerry Adams –a Ballymurphy Man’.  It was being shown as part of the Galway Film Festival. Already at 3pm the crowds were gathering outside sheltering from the […]

Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy on Gaza is a brutal, unconscionable affront to humanity, international law, and the very concept of moral leadership. Under his direction, the Israeli government has unleashed a campaign of collective punishment against an already suffering civilian population, turning Gaza into a graveyard and a ruin. What we are witnessing is not the […]

OK – The wait is over. Later today,  I’ll be rolling out an interview I did with Wallace Thompson, the former co-founder of the DUP. And the topic? How he feels about a border poll.  Look out for it after 2.00 pm today. (It’s the first in a weekly series).  Today, Pat and I talk […]

  OK – I don’t think I can take it anymore. Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion, but if the opinion is riddled with contradictions, it’s important to note that and dismiss it. I’m talking about those people who publicly wring their hands at the bloody way we chopped into each other here for some […]

Plus a song called THE BOATYARDSee link below . . .There is a place, beyond moralisingDown the road and round the cornerFrom a wee village called Hippocracy.It’s not hard to see these folksAnd their one eyed blindnessAs described by YeatsAround the early times of the Free State.The Free State ?A contradition in termsAfter a toxic […]

The Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald recently appeared on the popular TV show Good Morning Britain and was interviewed by Richard Madeley about a UI poll in 2030. How did she do? Play the video for an answer. Donald Trump is in something of a pickle over the Epstein files. The suspicion is that […]

    In his last book, ‘Miles Away’, Nick Edmunds , narrated a plot set firmly in the 1970s and happening in his native Scotland. With his second, recently  published  novel, ‘Ragged Island’, the scene shifts to the broader landscape of the Americas and jumps forward in time to 2030. Apparently, at one point , […]

We can often tell the way people see the world by the range of their vision.There are those who like to keep focused on a particular point or event, cutting out any surrounding matters and declaring that only this laser-like focus will take us through. To quote Father Jack, it will and my arse.  We’ve […]

  RSH. Bring a Pac-a-Mac. By Randall Stephen Hall. With an original song from 2010 CUT MY HAIR https://youtu.be/NQo9q_NU-EQ?si=uZNsxuOkmstgVzjp   When I was young and growing up  In North Belfast 1957 – 2025, in a lower middle class family, I was taken to the 12th Celebrations yearly. I even marched once, with my uncle Richard […]

History moves so slowly, you could weep. Here’s a column I wrote in The Irish News on 11 July 2002. Few things unite myself and William of Orange. I’m not of royal blood, I don’t have long curly hair and I’m not gay. But there is one thing we have in common – the Twelfth […]