Jude Collins

They say politics is show biz for ugly people. I’d suggest, in some cases, politics is a home for those who’ve had their sense of irony removed. At present all Irish media outlets – RTÉ, BBC, The Irish Times etc – are going full throttle about one Thomas Gould TD. He’s a member of Sinn […]

  As a Sunni terrorists cabal of rapists,torturers,and psychopathic deranged murderers the lowest scum on earth, who follow a perverted sect of Islam funded by Saudi Arabia, working on behalf of western and Zionist imperialism in the region are systematically murdering Syrian Alawites along the coastal region from Tartous to Latakia towns I have visited […]

MICHEAL MARTIN  will be visiting the White House on Wednesday. What line should he take – the touch-feely Macron line, the upright restrained Starmer line, or what? And will he mention the word ‘Gaza’, or would that be to risk a shouting match with President Trump? A week is a long time in politics and […]

     Through travel and learning about different cultures one learns to appreciate the freedoms and prosperity we experience in most of the West. Relative to the poverty I’ve seen in places such as Bolivia or Cambodia, I count myself lucky to have grown up in the occupied six counties for all its faults. One […]

  So how should Micheál Martin conduct himself on his Fight – oops, I mean White House visit? Will his customary slippiness be enough? Eleven-year-old Caitlin-Rose McMullan was getting of a bus, perhaps the school bus, at four o’clock one day this week. A vehicle hit her and killed her. Must we accept terrible events […]

‘Northerners are a hard-headed lot’  – that’s the sort of lazy thinking that abounds in the south about the north. Interestingly, recent polling suggests just the opposite. It’s the southerners who are up for driving a hard bargain. At least, according to the North and South research project  which has been polling opinions – yep […]

There’s a public air of anxiety throughout the world today. Talk to anyone – even if you don’t talk to them, they’ll still tell you – we’re in a ‘dangerous world’. Trump even accused Zelenskii of pushing us all into World War III.  There’s a belief among many that global conflict is inevitable. So is […]

Putin to demilitarise while Europe rearms? President Trump, as part of his public commitment to reduce American overall spending costs as part of his Make America Great Again agenda, is proposing a fifty percent reduction in the overall expenditure on the American “defence budget” ; he hopes to see this reciprocated by both Russia and […]

I once shook hands with Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada. Not Justin Trudeau, who is the present prime minister, but his father Pierre, who was also Canadian PM decades back. I was teaching in a school in Winnipeg, and as part of his campaign for election,  Pierre Trudeau visited that school. I could see […]

By Randall Stephen Hall.     You don’t have to be big To be a hero. You just need compassion. To see that love’s a round zero. By rounding the circle And reaching for peace. To fight the blue demons And bring down the beast.   You don’t have to be loud You just need […]