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Fintan O’Toole: Shame on us for forcing children to wake us up to climate change

Fintan O’Toole: Shame on us for forcing children to wake us up to climate change

We have failed to protect our children – now we are looking to them to protect us

Tue Mar 05 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The day ‘the Donald’ became forever ‘the Don’

Fintan O’Toole: The day ‘the Donald’ became forever ‘the Don’

Michael Cohen may be, in Trump's eyes, a rat. But what does that make Trump?

Sat Mar 02 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O'Toole: Ireland has successfully shifted Brexit odds in its favour

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland has successfully shifted Brexit odds in its favour

In this high-stakes game, the Republic has a three-in-four chance of winning

Tue Feb 26 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Mexico wall is Trump’s opium for a drug-saturated people

Fintan O’Toole: The Mexico wall is Trump’s opium for a drug-saturated people

The biggest drug problem in the US is not heroin or crystal meth, but painkillers

Sat Feb 23 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: The English love of eccentricity has turned sour

Fintan O’Toole: The English love of eccentricity has turned sour

Brexit has given us a new species and a strange, new phenomenon – the harmful eccentric

Tue Feb 19 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump has raised public tolerance for sexual sleaze

Fintan O’Toole: Trump has raised public tolerance for sexual sleaze

Ironically the president gave Jeff Bezos the courage to defy the National Inquirer

Sat Feb 16 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: The UK is taking back not control but tedium

Fintan O’Toole: The UK is taking back not control but tedium

Sense of danger hides fact the UK is repatriating boring stuff the EU excels at

Tue Feb 12 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Liam Neeson speaks the language of the lynch mob

Fintan O’Toole: Liam Neeson speaks the language of the lynch mob

The Irish actor seemed not to understand the story he told pressed on an open wound

Sat Feb 09 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: Jamie Bulger film a serious and moral piece of work

Fintan O’Toole: Jamie Bulger film a serious and moral piece of work

Calls for Vincent Lambe’s ‘Detainment’ to be withdrawn are deeply misguided

Tue Feb 05 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s education system was rigid and violent

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s education system was rigid and violent

Brutality lingered as a set of attitudes long after it was banished as official practice

Sat Feb 02 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O'Toole: Foster’s delight at the saving of Bombardier jobs has turned to indifference

Fintan O'Toole: Foster’s delight at the saving of Bombardier jobs has turned to indifference

A thousand Airbus jobs in east Belfast will be unviable if there is a hard Brexit

Tue Jan 29 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Britain, send your creative refugees our way

Fintan O’Toole: Britain, send your creative refugees our way

Ireland can capitalise on the Brexit brain drain from across the Irish Sea

Sat Jan 26 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: It is not just the economy, stupid – Brexit is about belonging

Fintan O’Toole: It is not just the economy, stupid – Brexit is about belonging

Brexit will not be reversed on the basis of economic arguments alone. The Left must address the crisis of identity at its heart

Tue Jan 22 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Hard Brexiteers think Germany will blink first

Fintan O’Toole: Hard Brexiteers think Germany will blink first

Delusion that EU’s fear of no-deal will allow renegotiation is likely to be obliterated by parliament

Sat Jan 19 2019 - 05:00
No Child 2020: Fintan O’Toole on a new Irish Times initiative

No Child 2020: Fintan O’Toole on a new Irish Times initiative

The problems children face in Ireland today, and the policies that could solve them

Sat Jan 19 2019 - 01:00
Fintan O'Toole: Today Britain discovers it cannot escape history

Fintan O'Toole: Today Britain discovers it cannot escape history

Why does today’s vote in the House of Commons feel so anticlimactic? Because it is based on a fantasy of how history works

Tue Jan 15 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The first murky, inglorious shots of the War of Independence

Fintan O’Toole: The first murky, inglorious shots of the War of Independence

The Soloheadbeg ambush of 1919 was as much a strike at Sinn Féin as at Britain

Sat Jan 12 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: British wrong to think revolutions are bloodless

Fintan O’Toole: British wrong to think revolutions are bloodless

Only those who fail to take threat of political violence seriously can indulge it

Tue Jan 08 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The second World War will finally end in 2019

Fintan O’Toole: The second World War will finally end in 2019

In the US and Britain, 2019 may see disenchantment with the reactionary nature of 2016

Sat Jan 05 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: 2018, year of the dark new normal

Fintan O’Toole: 2018, year of the dark new normal

Physical and political wildfires raged across the world – and we began to get used to them

Sat Dec 29 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: My first Christmas as a grandfather and my first as nobody’s child

Fintan O’Toole: My first Christmas as a grandfather and my first as nobody’s child

There are times when the wonder of death and birth seems overwhelming

Mon Dec 24 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The British should know their place on Brexit

Fintan O’Toole: The British should know their place on Brexit

The Irish did not invent the backstop to thwart Brexit. The crisis is a British one

Sat Dec 22 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: One homeless child is a tragedy. Four thousand homeless children is a policy

Fintan O’Toole: One homeless child is a tragedy. Four thousand homeless children is a policy

While we worship an image of a homeless child, thousands of children in Ireland will wake up at Christmas in places that are not homes

Tue Dec 18 2018 - 06:00
Over the Backyard Wall and The Theatre of Thomas Kilroy reviews

Over the Backyard Wall and The Theatre of Thomas Kilroy reviews

Fintan O’Toole reviews books by and about Ireland’s greatest living playwright

Sat Dec 15 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Britain now has a zombie PM to go with a zombie Brexit

Fintan O’Toole: Britain now has a zombie PM to go with a zombie Brexit

Unless it escapes from this mess now, Britain will be locked into a decade of political crises

Sat Dec 15 2018 - 05:45
UK has two options: a people’s vote or Liechtenstein Plus

UK has two options: a people’s vote or Liechtenstein Plus

Fintan O’Toole: Brexit looks like it was written by Marx Brothers

Tue Dec 11 2018 - 06:16
Fintan O’Toole: The 1918 election was an amazing moment for Ireland

Fintan O’Toole: The 1918 election was an amazing moment for Ireland

In an act of peaceful secession, Irish people chose to be citizens, not subjects

Sat Dec 08 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: We are losing our collective mechanism for survival

Fintan O'Toole: We are losing our collective mechanism for survival

Fintan O’Toole: Why must we experience the worst before we can believe in it?

Tue Dec 04 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s Brexit

Fintan O’Toole: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s Brexit

The UK’s decision to leave the EU is like living through the anarchy of punk all over again

Sat Dec 01 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: The bad ship Brexit needs a skilful mutiny

Fintan O’Toole: The bad ship Brexit needs a skilful mutiny

HMS Brexit moored between Cape Disappointment, Delusion Point and Exasperation Bay

Tue Nov 27 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: The English have been told lies about the EU by most of their press

Fintan O'Toole: The English have been told lies about the EU by most of their press

Brexit is the outcome of decades of spoofery by Britain’s media

Sat Nov 24 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: ‘There is no future in England’s dreaming’

Fintan O’Toole: ‘There is no future in England’s dreaming’

To get to Brexit, a society has to dream itself into an unexperienced condition

Tue Nov 20 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit ultras haven’t the guts to do the only logical thing

Fintan O’Toole: Brexit ultras haven’t the guts to do the only logical thing

A truly patriotic politician would now ask the British people again if this is what they really want

Sat Nov 17 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: Historians will not believe sheer ignorance of Brexit supporters

Fintan O’Toole: Historians will not believe sheer ignorance of Brexit supporters

Future chroniclers will in fact have to distinguish between three kinds of ignorance

Tue Nov 13 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being fought

Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being fought

A century after the Armistice of 1918, we are still living in the world it created

Sat Nov 10 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: Trump brings the Republican Party down to his level

Fintan O’Toole: Trump brings the Republican Party down to his level

Success in the Senate race consolidates his control of conservative America

Wed Nov 07 2018 - 12:48
Fintan O'Toole: Why Caligula should be Theresa May's role model

Fintan O'Toole: Why Caligula should be Theresa May's role model

It is vital that May is allowed to save face even as she performs the great Brexit climbdown

Tue Nov 06 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: We need Ireland’s world-class architects to design great public housing for Dublin

Fintan O’Toole: We need Ireland’s world-class architects to design great public housing for Dublin

Capital ideas: Irish architecture is part of the solution to a major social problem

Sat Nov 03 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: Fascism lurks beneath the surface of Irish society

Fintan O’Toole: Fascism lurks beneath the surface of Irish society

Avoiding hatred is not about being nice to Travellers but about preserving democracy

Tue Oct 30 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Casey didn’t create an audience – it found him

Fintan O’Toole: Casey didn’t create an audience – it found him

Casey’s rivals, to their credit, did not follow by picking scab of Ireland’s deepest prejudice

Sat Oct 27 2018 - 12:18
Fintan O’Toole: Khashoggi’s murder reveals a reality the West wants to hide

Fintan O’Toole: Khashoggi’s murder reveals a reality the West wants to hide

The deal with Saudi Arabia has always been: everything’s fine as long as the oil flows

Sat Oct 27 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O'Toole: Irish presidents are the best in the world

Fintan O'Toole: Irish presidents are the best in the world

As a Republic we can be proud we elect presidents of eloquence and gravity

Tue Oct 23 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Here’s how post-Brexit Ireland could turn out

Fintan O’Toole: Here’s how post-Brexit Ireland could turn out

It’s time to think about the unthinkable – a disintegrated UK, a reignition of the Troubles

Sat Oct 20 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The DUP has entangled its destiny with the English Shinners

Fintan O’Toole: The DUP has entangled its destiny with the English Shinners

The little Englanders the DUP has aligned with have no desire to subsidise the North

Tue Oct 16 2018 - 06:00
‘21 Lessons for the 21st Century’: A wake-up call about humanity’s future

‘21 Lessons for the 21st Century’: A wake-up call about humanity’s future

Historian Yuval Noah Harari argues toning down panic is key to dealing with society’s predicament

Sat Oct 13 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Snobbery is at the root of the housing crisis

Fintan O’Toole: Snobbery is at the root of the housing crisis

Millions of us grew up in local authority houses. We are no worse than anyone else

Sat Oct 13 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Only lasting comfort in Charleton's tale is hero Maurice McCabe

Fintan O’Toole: Only lasting comfort in Charleton's tale is hero Maurice McCabe

Only enduring comfort of this moral tale is that it has a hero in Maurice McCabe

Fri Oct 12 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Bad social policy makes for bad budgets

Fintan O'Toole: Bad social policy makes for bad budgets

Ireland’s finances are worse than other countries in four key ways

Tue Oct 09 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: John Bull, not Michel Barnier, is undermining the union

Fintan O’Toole: John Bull, not Michel Barnier, is undermining the union

When it’s all over, what will be left for Northern Ireland to be united with?

Sat Oct 06 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Brett Kavanaugh shows White Irish Catholic is now core of US reactionary politics

Fintan O'Toole: Brett Kavanaugh shows White Irish Catholic is now core of US reactionary politics

The nominee for the US Supreme Court is part of a wider reactionary mindset in which being Irish means you can dismiss your own privilege

Tue Oct 02 2018 - 02:00
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