Jude Collins

    I understand that there was a competition in the 1930s for the most sensational headline. I don’t think it was in THE IRISH TIMES, but I wouldn’t rule it out. The winner was ARCHDUKE FERDINAND FOUND ALIVE: WAR UNNECESSARY!   In FEBRUARY 1933, in an Editorial, The Irish Times warned its readers of […]

So – what do you think of the Olympics? And the fact that we in NEI must receive the Games through a British filter? Is the South of Ireland intent on fortifying the border by not carrying the Games for us in the North? And we’re back to flags again – the one waved in […]

    The existence of the game of Hurling after two thousand years came as a surprise to many Britons when the BBC screened the All-Ireland Final recently. I came to live in England in November 1964 and have seldom met English people with much, if any knowledge of Ireland beyond what Britain’s cultural mandarins […]

I’ve been enjoying these Olympics but I’m still mad as hell. An earlier blog indicated my delight for the bespectacled Daniel Wiffen. I’ve also enjoyed watching some of Siobhán Bernadette Haughey from Hong Kong  (grand-niece of the mighty Charlie) and that performance last night from Leon Marchand, who cool as you like picked up a […]

Did you watch the Olympics swimming last evening? To be precise, did you watch the 800 metres free-style final for men? Of course you did – OF COURSE YOU DID.  Because Daniel Wiffen was tipped to do the business,  he did the business, and this morning he is the proud holder of an Olympic gold […]

February 1, 1994 Ulster’s Man of the Dark By EDNA O’BRIEN BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Gerry Adams is something of a mystery. His enclave in the Falls Road in West Belfast is row on row of diminutive red-brick houses cleaved together, his flock 100,000 or so Roman Catholics. And his calling in recent months has […]

Why do I feel so elated over Armagh winning the All-Ireland Football Final? It’s not as if I’ve any affiliation with Armagh – I have met a few Armagh people and have found them invariably friendly and articulate. In fact I remember fado fado interviewing primary school kids about their pets.  I wasn’t really interested […]

Did you watch the All-Ireland Football Final? I did but I don’t think Jim Allister did, because never mind Croke Park and Jarlath Burns and Jarly Óg, Jim is very offended that the GAA would name a GAA cup after a ‘terrorist’.   And how did you find the opening ceremony of the Olympics? I […]

I INTEND TO WRITE A SERIES OF BLOGS ON SPOOKS AND CROOKS OF THE BRITISH SECRET SERVICE       By coincidence I discovered no less than Five  BLOGS of mine produced here and easily accessed revealing a single example of how the public is deceived   1. A RIGHT ROYAL HOW DO YOU DO  […]

FURTHER TO WHAT I WROTE YESTERDAY ON CHANNEL 4 AND OTHER ERRANT MEDIA by Donal Kennedy                 Yesterday I recalled the acclamation of TIMES Editor HAROLD EVANS as EDITOR OF THE YEAR by similar scoundrels within hours of the publication of The Press Council rebuke of the paper […]