Jude Collins

    The late Brian O’Higgins, a Republican veteran of the 1916 Rising, 2nd Dail TD and lifelong opponent of any accommodation with Britain’s claims in Ireland, was not much of a poet, though he could produce a composition a day during his internment in Frongoch.   For decades he produced the only Christmas cards […]

Ireland’s decision to remain neutral during the Second World War, known as “The Emergency” in Ireland, was rooted in a complex interplay of historical, political, and strategic considerations. The stance of neutrality, championed by Prime Minister Éamon de Valera, was not only a pragmatic choice but also a reflection of Ireland’s desire to assert its […]

  Well, it looks like Sinn Féin were the big losers in the South’s local and European elections last week. What were the reasons for the sudden plunge in votes for Sinn Féin? Could it be linked to the number of Independents elected to councils throughout the South? In South Belfast, some young ruffians were […]

According to the historian Diarmuid Ferriter, some 130,000 Irish people fought or were part of the Allies in World War Two. Almost 5000  deserted the Irish army to fight, mainly in British uniform. Yesterday, you’ll have noticed, there was huge coverage of what happened on D-Day, with rousing tributes to all the Allied soldiers, especially […]

  Did you watch Starmer v Sunak on ITV last night? The time – over an hour – went quickly, even though both men were clearly intent on damaging their opponent rather than articulating their own plans. As in such debates, how the candidate handles himself is important.  Even when the audience laughed at a […]

Last month,Micheål Martin  teamed up with Norway and Spain to recognise Palestine.It’s nice to see some Western states give their support to Palestine – but did you have to wait eight months, after some 35,000 defenceless people had been put to death by Israel?  If you really cared,wouldn’t you have  yelled from the rooftops months […]

Remember the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash in 1994,  when more than two dozen top British intelligence people were killed? The widow of one of the pilots is demanding that the full truth of the incident should be revealed. So is it possible that the helicopter was sabotaged? Donald Trump is now a convicted felon. […]

      The British government is hellbent on drawing a line on its past shadowy escapades in the North. I wonder why that is?  The Conservative Party’s ‘Legacy Bill’ or ‘Legacy and Reconciliation Bill’ was engineered to do just that while attempting to pacify the victims and relatives of paramilitary killings by setting up […]

The Irish Times  lets fly with both barrels this morning – its two tame anti-Shinner columnists tell us why we’re all wrong about the cost of a united Ireland, and how Sinn Féin policy is dictated by a shadowy group in Belfast. And yet it appears that Pearse Doherty’s visit to Davy Stockbrokers has reassured […]

    Virtue- Signalling is the expression of statements calculated to reflect credit on their  author rather than on the apparent subject of their approval.   The author may boast a Moral Compass but be unable to recognise one if it pricked him in the arse.     I have before me a volume  COURAGE  Eight Portraits  […]