Jude Collins

  The IRA ceasefire in September 1994 came about because the IRA leadership (inside and outside the prisons) considered that it was the right time to create and develop a political strategy to advance the republican objective  to end British rule and to work for Irish reunification.  It was not just the behind the scenes […]

Do the people of the South of Ireland realise how lucky they are? In some other countries, the parliamentarians don’t give a tinker’s spit about anything, including the difference between right and wrong. In the South of Ireland, we have parliamentarians whose sharp eye on other people’s affairs makes the Skibereen Eagle look like a […]

THE REIVER AND THE GAEL.By Randall Stephen Hall. A song that tells the story.https://soundcloud.com/randall-stephen-hall/rsh-reiver-and-the-gael-demo-11724www.randallstephenhallsongs.com“The past affects our future.  As children we don’t choose to do this, any of this. By the time we are 18, the damage is done. We are still divided in the north.” RSH.I grew up in north Belfast but  I had […]

  Why are Sinn Féin so corrupt? They must be, because the media are attacking them at every angle over Michael McMonagle, their two former PR people, and at this moment over Brian Stanley TD’s resignation and bitter words against the party to which he once belonged. In my podcast with Pat McArt yesterday I […]

A Scottish National Party (SNP)member called John Mason has been kicked out of the party, even though he’s a parliamentarian, for saying that Israel is not intent on  genocide in Gaza, otherwise they’d have killed ten times as many Palestinians. Is he by any chance right? Do the citizens of Israel get the same reporting […]

              An interesting, indeed intriguing, contender, TOM TUGENDHAT, first swam into my ken nearly nine years ago and featured in  my BLOG –   “WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT PRIEST”  on 28th of JANUARY   2016.   The hero of the piece was Lieutenant Colonel the Reverend […]

    As one of the two remaining contenders for the Tory leadership Jenrick displays a lack of hypocrisy in  his frank resolution to formally renounce British support for the European Court of Human Rights.   The Court predates the Treaty of Rome (1960) and has no connection with the EU and its renunciation now […]

Simon Harris has left the door open to a possible November election in the South, before the gloss and shine goes off his new leadership; Micheál  Martin is insisting it should be in Spring. Who’s gonna win? Could both of them lose? Why hasn’t Netenyahu been arrested. The international court has found him guilty for […]

  Do you believe in violence to achieve your political goals or would you favour strictly peaceful means? I’m going to assume most of you renounced violence as a method and chose peaceful protest or politics.   If I then asked you if you paid your taxes, virtually everyone would say they did – we’re […]

      If an Irish Government were to mirror the one in Kiev it would ban the English language and the study of English literature.   It would also outlaw the Church of Ireland, part of the Anglican Communion.   I’m not joking.   I cannot understand how any half-decent human being can identify […]