Jude Collins

    I watched the Leaders Debate on RTE on Monday night. I thought it was a good debate -handled well by the Up Front presenter Katie Hannon. The main issues facing the 26 county electorate quickly emerged -housing, health care, cost of living, immigration and climate change.  I thought the best performer, by far, […]

      The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury has prompted an IRISH TIMESEditorial whose author should be put in the stocks and pelted with rotten eggs. Like the Church of England, the Catholic Church, in Ireland and internationally has had horrific scandals. So has the Church of Ireland in its Dublin Archdiocese, and […]

So – that leaders’ debate on RTÉ last night – how would you rate the performances? And do these debates matter in the end? Some scary figures about the South’s children and their health. How can a state have bulging coffers and children who are suffering unnecessarily? We provide some figures. Have the DUP a […]

  On 23 February 1923 I wrote a BLOG “THE BBC -THE WELL OF HISTORY DEFILED”   On 8th December 1916 I wrote a BLOG “COUNTER FACTUAL  DRAMA ” or THE WELLSOF HISTORY DEFILED.   With much of the western media peddling the lies of Zionist Genocidalists, and Ukrainian Neo-Fascists and Al Jazeera an RT […]

It seems Mary Lou McDonald touched a sore spot on Simon Harris’s soul on the TV debate last night. She was talking about the state’s treatment of children, no doubt having in mind the Easter Proclamation’s line about “cherishing all the children of the nation equally”.  Mary Lou spoke of the Dublin government’s “faux concern […]

  “HISTORY TODAY” is a  British magazine which each month asks someone it deems    a leading historian why their research matters, what history has taught them and what  we should be reading.     Its December Issue arrived today where it puts Lucy Noakes “ON THE SPOT.”    Lucy holds the Rab Butler Chair in Modern History […]

  So. Near to half-way through the south’s general election, how are Fine Gael doing? ‘Trying hard but could do better’ might be their report card judgement. First there was Michael O’Leary – you know, Mr Ryanair, the man who shoots from the hip. He was at the campaign launch for Fine Gael Minister for […]

    Following a United Nations ruling that Britain had no legitimate claim to the islands, which had been ruled by Mauritius, the British purported to intend to return them to that sovereign state. But the islands are the site of a huge joint US and UK base and neither of those  pedatory powers have […]

  I sometimes go to visit in the Palliative Care wing in a local hospital. The patients there are preparing to die. It amazes me to find them in such good spirits. I believe that this is the result of the way the patients are being cared for by the nurses, doctors and staff. Their […]

    Arising from the BLOG  “WEBSTER’S: MOROCCO BOUND? I got thinking about among other things the great lexicographer, Samuel Johnson.  Admirable on many counts. He deplored the extinguishing of any language, which  he described as the Pedigree of a Nation. He would have little use for the brain-dead  gobshites who think “thaw shay  mahogany […]