From the past to modernity: images of Ireland transformingMartin Parr’s work portrays socio-cultural shift from conformismSat Oct 24 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: State bumbling along with ad hoc decision-making as Covid crisis worsensWe are bumbling along with ad hoc arrangements created in a panic last MarchTue Oct 20 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump has failed to restore blue-collar America’s lost paradisePresident who promised to bring back coal oversaw its steepest ever declineSat Oct 17 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Budget must stop spread of inequality in Irish societyCovid pandemic is amplifying divisions inherent in having two different economiesTue Oct 13 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump has not sacrificed himself for his people. Quite the oppositeIf Aids was Trump’s Vietnam, Covid-19 is his director’s cut of Apocalypse NowSat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Trump's illusion of immunity has been exposed by the virusCovid-19 reveals the great weakness of authoritarianism: the leader’s bodyTue Oct 06 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Catholicism is right at the heart of epic US presidential electionTrump’s biggest political achievement is his alliance with Catholic AmericaSat Oct 03 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: My father wanted to die and I promised to help himIn the end, if we cannot choose to die, we cannot choose to liveTue Sept 29 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Covid-19 pandemic might be good for the arts – eventuallyCurrent scenario heightens our perceptions and new artists will emerge from itSat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Ireland's young and working classes are in the Covid-19 firing lineLack of mandatory sick pay means people have no choice but to go to work when they feel ill and this helps coronavirus spreadTue Sept 22 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: It is June 24th, 2025 – and Brexit has workedBut the reality is that the Brexit fantasists have failed. Only the disruptors are still standingSat Sept 19 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: English nationalism is too naive to know its limitsBecause the Brexiteers cannot articulate the force that drives them, they cannot set its boundariesTue Sept 15 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: There is no utopian alternative to the Leaving CertSix months ago, schools and colleges closed. What have we learned since?Sat Sept 12 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Johnson's breaking of Brexit pledge is smart-arse duplicity‘Oven-ready’ policy tactic had secret addendum – ‘we’ll go back and edit the cookbook’Thu Sept 10 2020 - 19:54
Fintan O’Toole: It’s not the public that has Covid fatigue – it’s the StateThere are worrying signs that those managing the pandemic are losing the ability to concentrate on what mattersTue Sept 08 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: 10 key moments from six months of lockdownThe firm early decisions, the mis-steps, the reopenings as the country grappled with Covid-19Sat Sept 05 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Absence of Covid defences at Dublin Airport is startlingLack of testing and adequate tracing stand in stark contrast to situation in CopenhagenTue Sept 01 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Golfgate’s sleepwalkers aren’t stupid. They have a different problemWhat is truly beyond comprehension is that they did not even think politicallySat Aug 29 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Oireachtas golf event broke webs of mutuality that bind Irish societyWe must not allow controversy destroy social capital that has kept us goingTue Aug 25 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Turning a blind eye to meat plants a very old habitThe obvious threat of meat plants becoming vectors of Covid-19 infection was not met with robust actionTue Aug 11 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Supreme Court calls time on government waffleIn throwing out State’s Climate Mitigation Plan, judges have done a real service to Irish democracyTue Aug 04 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: To keep schools open, the Government needs to start learning quicklyWhy are problems entirely predictable in April only being addressed now?Sat Aug 01 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit is like having to listen to someone else’s dreamsThe epic story of liberation has become mesmerisingly tediousTue Jul 28 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Newstalk’s Irish Times ban is a classic case of ‘cancel culture’Cancel culture isn’t new, just a new term for an old concept of cynical hypocrisySat Jul 25 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Lack of preparation for reopening schools is terrifyingWith just five weeks to go, the Department of Education has no ‘clear picture’ of what is neededTue Jul 21 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: If Brexit is so great, why is Britain acting like it’s not happening?Our neighbours are still struggling to believe that Brexit is a real-world eventSat Jul 18 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Jack Charlton allowed us to accept the English part of our IrishnessThe two countries’ hybrid urban culture was a truth universally unacknowledgedTue Jul 14 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: In the US, the 19th century is coming to a very slow endThe unfinished business of slavery, emancipation and Civil War is still playing itself outSat Jul 11 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Young Micheál Martin had courage to face dark truthsIn 1999 the then minister for education made brave choices. Does he still have it in him?Tue Jul 07 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Future of the American republic is in grave danger unless Trump is defeatedIf Donald Trump is not removed from office, Abraham Lincoln’s republic cannot endureSat Jul 04 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The new Government will be far more radical than it intends to beThe task it faces is, in its scale, something like the nation-building of a century agoTue Jun 30 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Covid-19 has redefined Ireland’s relationship with BritainFor once, we didn’t follow Britain – a moment of great psychological significanceSat Jun 27 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole on Italia 90: Confessions of a teenage football weaklingFintan O’Toole on how church and State ruined his chances of becoming a midfield supremoFri Jun 26 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Greens have no choice but to enter governmentIt is the Greens’ own values that force them to take the power that is on offerTue Jun 23 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of loveFatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdownSat Jun 20 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Investigating the Troubles requires a hard-headed exchange: truth for amnestyThere will be no justice for victims and the bereaved. But we can at least have the truthTue Jun 16 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Five reasons to be cheerful about the futureCovid-19 has turned the tide against right-wing nationalism and ‘strongman’ leadersSat Jun 13 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland's anti-Traveller hate speech is the respectable group prejudiceIf how we treat Travellers is our model for ‘rooting out’ racism, the prospects look bleakTue Jun 09 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The violence of racism is deeply embedded in American societyIn 2016, white America elected a racist president. That privilege comes with a costSat Jun 06 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Coronavirus is like the Taliban – it hates artCovid-19 has destroyed live performance, we must support artists in reinventing itTue Jun 02 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: It is time for an Irish National Health ServiceThe Covid-19 pandemic has made it impossible for the old health system to continueSat May 30 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Last week's hysteria shows politicians and judges need to get a gripSensible coronavirus advice prompts wild overreaction among establishment elitesTue May 26 2020 - 12:42
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is again collateral damage in Britain’s self-harmThe attitudes behind Brexit resurface in Boris Johnson’s tragic failure of leadershipSat May 23 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Spare us the scare stories about public spendingIreland will have to borrow a lot of money. What matters is how well we spend itTue May 19 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: ‘Bomb the economy’ is the only climate strategy that’s worked in IrelandHow can Scotland meet climate targets while Ireland fails? One word: leadershipSat May 16 2020 - 06:00
Humankind: A Hopeful History – Busting the myth of our innate selfishnessBook review: Rutger Bregman convincingly rejects capitalist assumptions about behaviour, says Fintan O'TooleSat May 16 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Rupert Murdoch is a super-spreader of ignorance on coronavirusSpit at someone and you go jail. Spread deadly lies and you enjoy impunityTue May 12 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Bono at 60 – Why is Ireland so ambivalent about its most famous son?He is a truly global celebrity but we might like him more if he did not try to be so goodSat May 09 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Criticism is not unpatriotic – awkward questions save livesMistakes are inevitable in this crisis. What matters is learning from themTue May 05 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Governments need to resist corporate blackmail over bailoutsA repeat of the last crash, with ordinary people bled dry, would be catastrophicSat May 02 2020 - 06:00
