Jude Collins

And so we say farewell to Joe Biden. Trump won’t have him to kick around any more. But will Kamala Harris take his place as Democratic presidential candidate? And do American election campaigns have to run for around two years? Everywhere else manages quite well on six weeks.   Bishop Eamon Casey is in the […]

    So Ursula von der Leyen  has been re-elected top dog in the EU. Given her record with regard to Israel and a few other things, should Irish people be dancing in the streets or rending their garments? And is it true that Ireland ‘is full’? Diarmaid Ferriter in today’s Irish Times thinks not, but makes […]

  In his acceptance speech for vice-presidential candidate, J D Vance spoke of his home town of Middletown in Ohio. The picture he painted was of a good-living, neighbourly, supportive community –  straight out of the Walt Disney presentation of life. None of us wants to do down our old home town, but most of […]

Pat Cullen MP -victorious in spite of the BBC The result of the Fermanagh /South Tyrone election showed that Pat Cullen, a newcomer to electoral politics, did very well in spite of the best efforts of the BBC –or maybe because of the best efforts of the BBC. She won by more than 4000 votes. […]

      It seems to me that the USA, BRITAIN and their puppets are hellbent on it.   Russia  does not now, and did not in the Soviet era pose any threat to western countries nor their legitimate interests. The Soviets, when the Brits were trying to throttle their State at birth co-operated with […]

  Did you know there was considerable rioting in south Belfast yesterday? Petrol and paint bombs were hurled and vehicles belonging to the PSNI  were damaged. Chief Superintendent Jeremy Lindsay, District Commander for Belfast, said: “Thankfully, no injuries to police officers or the public were reported. However, this was a particularly protracted period of public […]

  Voter turnout  in  the recent election was the lowest since the introduction of universal adult suffrage in 1928.With a mere 35% of the votes cast Labour took approximately   66% of the seats.   This year all constituencies were contested. I make this point to avoid confusion    with historical circumstances  which involved non-contested seats. […]

First man: What’s all this about a National Day of Commemoration? Second man: God, but you’re ignorant. It’s a day dedicated to commemoration of Irishmen who died while fighting in wars or with the United Nations. First man: Is that a fact. All Irishmen, eh? Well at least they’ve spread their net wide. Second man: […]

Donald J Trump has an emotional impact on many people. Some go into a kind of idolatrous trance, chanting his name and crying ‘Make America Great Again!’. Others look worried or depressed and begin to mutter about the fact that Trump is not just obnoxious but a lying tub of mysogynistic lard. His many followers […]

  How different from the General Election of 1918 when Irish Republicans, in a contest “regarded on all sides as a plebiscite” according to THE TIMES, took 73 of the  Ireland’s  105 Parliamentary seats, and when those of their successful candidates not in British  prisons used their mandate to establish a democratic Republic.   The […]