Jude Collins

Remember that time, fado fado,  when Gerry Adams and David Trimble stood shoulder to shoulder in the Stormont toilets during the Good Friday Agreement discussion, with the future of Ireland in their hands? How exactly did the conversation run? We reveal all. In the Irish Times this morning, Pat Leahy has an article listing three […]

  .     I hate to say “I told you so”, but here we are. Regular readers will remember my post last week about a brief TV appearance I made that put the cat among the Irish media pigeons about Sinn Féin and how they are covered, and everything that has happened since on the airwaves […]

Are you a fan of the Late Late Show on RTÉ? If so, you probably heard Patrick Kielty’s pre-show monologue where he linked Mary Lou McDonald’s name with the show ‘Traitors’. RTÉ says it was satire; SF’s Louise O’Reilly says it is a phrase used by those on the far right and that it had […]

I was listening earlier today to William Crawley quizzing Rev Harold Goode about his observation of IRA decommissioning. I listened for only a short while, and he hadn’t got round to talking about the decommissioning of loyalist weapons but  I expect he’s been over that ground by now.  There’s a thing about weapons: they don’t […]

It is such a pity that Fintan O’Toole and Michael McDowell couldn’t have linked up when both were at their bodily peak. They’d have made a great wrestling tag-duo. Yesterday Fintan vaulted into the ring and went ten rounds with Sinn Féin,  concluding his comparison of Sinn Féin with the Cathoic Church (at its worst, […]

God it’s gas too, isn’t it? The way the Shinners have shot themselves in the foot, knee, arms and ear. I just LOVE IT!  And people can say what they like about Irish media, but when it comes time to step up to the plate and whack the ball down the Shinners’ throats, no one […]

              In an article in the Andersonstown News some time ago, the former President of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, stated: “The Good Friday Agreement created a mechanism for constitutional change through referendums. It was overwhelmingly endorsed in referendums North and South. “There is a constitutional obligation on the Irish […]

For the past week the media, particularly but not exclusively in the North, have been on a blood-hunt against Sinn Féin. They lied, they dissembled, they put children at risk – the list goes on.And every media orifice emitted its guff: The View, Nolan, Talkback, Prime Time.  You’d nearly think an election was on the way – […]

  Sir,   Reading the review by Professor Rachel Matthews, where she recalls chairing, on July 7 2011 a panel on ethics and press standards which included a former director of the Telegraph Media who had chaired the Press Complaints Commission, I could only conclude that she was as out of place as a virgin […]

    I think that the Western World is probably at its most rotten as I write. The United States, Britain and much of the EU are up past their eyebrows in genocide and their media are happy with the murder of over 170 heroic reporters and photographers in Gaza. Heroic and honest Englishmen such […]