Fintan O’Toole: The Irish priest who paved way for Donald TrumpFr Charles Coughlin created the template for a media-savvy demagogue to acquire a huge political following in the USSat Mar 09 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: Shame on us for forcing children to wake us up to climate changeWe have failed to protect our children – now we are looking to them to protect usTue Mar 05 2019 - 05:00
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 favourIn this high-stakes game, the Republic has a three-in-four chance of winningTue Feb 26 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Mexico wall is Trump’s opium for a drug-saturated peopleThe biggest drug problem in the US is not heroin or crystal meth, but painkillersSat Feb 23 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: The English love of eccentricity has turned sourBrexit has given us a new species and a strange, new phenomenon – the harmful eccentricTue Feb 19 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump has raised public tolerance for sexual sleazeIronically the president gave Jeff Bezos the courage to defy the National InquirerSat Feb 16 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: The UK is taking back not control but tediumSense of danger hides fact the UK is repatriating boring stuff the EU excels atTue Feb 12 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Liam Neeson speaks the language of the lynch mobThe Irish actor seemed not to understand the story he told pressed on an open woundSat Feb 09 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: Jamie Bulger film a serious and moral piece of workCalls for Vincent Lambe’s ‘Detainment’ to be withdrawn are deeply misguidedTue Feb 05 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s education system was rigid and violentBrutality lingered as a set of attitudes long after it was banished as official practiceSat Feb 02 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O'Toole: Foster’s delight at the saving of Bombardier jobs has turned to indifferenceA thousand Airbus jobs in east Belfast will be unviable if there is a hard BrexitTue Jan 29 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Britain, send your creative refugees our wayIreland can capitalise on the Brexit brain drain from across the Irish SeaSat Jan 26 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: It is not just the economy, stupid – Brexit is about belongingBrexit will not be reversed on the basis of economic arguments alone. The Left must address the crisis of identity at its heartTue Jan 22 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Hard Brexiteers think Germany will blink firstDelusion that EU’s fear of no-deal will allow renegotiation is likely to be obliterated by parliamentSat Jan 19 2019 - 05:00
No Child 2020: Fintan O’Toole on a new Irish Times initiativeThe problems children face in Ireland today, and the policies that could solve themSat Jan 19 2019 - 01:00
Fintan O'Toole: Today Britain discovers it cannot escape historyWhy does today’s vote in the House of Commons feel so anticlimactic? Because it is based on a fantasy of how history worksTue Jan 15 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The first murky, inglorious shots of the War of IndependenceThe Soloheadbeg ambush of 1919 was as much a strike at Sinn Féin as at BritainSat Jan 12 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: British wrong to think revolutions are bloodlessOnly those who fail to take threat of political violence seriously can indulge itTue Jan 08 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The second World War will finally end in 2019In the US and Britain, 2019 may see disenchantment with the reactionary nature of 2016Sat Jan 05 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: 2018, year of the dark new normalPhysical and political wildfires raged across the world – and we began to get used to themSat Dec 29 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: My first Christmas as a grandfather and my first as nobody’s childThere are times when the wonder of death and birth seems overwhelmingMon Dec 24 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The British should know their place on BrexitThe Irish did not invent the backstop to thwart Brexit. The crisis is a British oneSat Dec 22 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: One homeless child is a tragedy. Four thousand homeless children is a policyWhile we worship an image of a homeless child, thousands of children in Ireland will wake up at Christmas in places that are not homesTue Dec 18 2018 - 06:00
Over the Backyard Wall and The Theatre of Thomas Kilroy reviewsFintan O’Toole reviews books by and about Ireland’s greatest living playwrightSat Dec 15 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Britain now has a zombie PM to go with a zombie BrexitUnless it escapes from this mess now, Britain will be locked into a decade of political crisesSat Dec 15 2018 - 05:45
UK has two options: a people’s vote or Liechtenstein PlusFintan O’Toole: Brexit looks like it was written by Marx BrothersTue Dec 11 2018 - 06:16
Fintan O’Toole: The 1918 election was an amazing moment for IrelandIn an act of peaceful secession, Irish people chose to be citizens, not subjectsSat Dec 08 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: We are losing our collective mechanism for survivalFintan 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 BrexitThe UK’s decision to leave the EU is like living through the anarchy of punk all over againSat Dec 01 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: The bad ship Brexit needs a skilful mutinyHMS Brexit moored between Cape Disappointment, Delusion Point and Exasperation BayTue Nov 27 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: The English have been told lies about the EU by most of their pressBrexit is the outcome of decades of spoofery by Britain’s mediaSat Nov 24 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: ‘There is no future in England’s dreaming’To get to Brexit, a society has to dream itself into an unexperienced conditionTue Nov 20 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit ultras haven’t the guts to do the only logical thingA truly patriotic politician would now ask the British people again if this is what they really wantSat Nov 17 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: Historians will not believe sheer ignorance of Brexit supportersFuture chroniclers will in fact have to distinguish between three kinds of ignoranceTue Nov 13 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being foughtA century after the Armistice of 1918, we are still living in the world it createdSat Nov 10 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: Trump brings the Republican Party down to his levelSuccess in the Senate race consolidates his control of conservative AmericaWed Nov 07 2018 - 12:48
Fintan O'Toole: Why Caligula should be Theresa May's role modelIt is vital that May is allowed to save face even as she performs the great Brexit climbdownTue Nov 06 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: We need Ireland’s world-class architects to design great public housing for DublinCapital ideas: Irish architecture is part of the solution to a major social problemSat Nov 03 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: Fascism lurks beneath the surface of Irish societyAvoiding hatred is not about being nice to Travellers but about preserving democracyTue Oct 30 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Casey didn’t create an audience – it found himCasey’s rivals, to their credit, did not follow by picking scab of Ireland’s deepest prejudiceSat Oct 27 2018 - 12:18
Fintan O’Toole: Khashoggi’s murder reveals a reality the West wants to hideThe deal with Saudi Arabia has always been: everything’s fine as long as the oil flowsSat Oct 27 2018 - 05:45
Fintan O'Toole: Irish presidents are the best in the worldAs a Republic we can be proud we elect presidents of eloquence and gravityTue Oct 23 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Here’s how post-Brexit Ireland could turn outIt’s time to think about the unthinkable – a disintegrated UK, a reignition of the TroublesSat Oct 20 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The DUP has entangled its destiny with the English ShinnersThe little Englanders the DUP has aligned with have no desire to subsidise the NorthTue Oct 16 2018 - 06:00
‘21 Lessons for the 21st Century’: A wake-up call about humanity’s futureHistorian Yuval Noah Harari argues toning down panic is key to dealing with society’s predicamentSat Oct 13 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Snobbery is at the root of the housing crisisMillions of us grew up in local authority houses. We are no worse than anyone elseSat Oct 13 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Only lasting comfort in Charleton's tale is hero Maurice McCabeOnly enduring comfort of this moral tale is that it has a hero in Maurice McCabeFri Oct 12 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Bad social policy makes for bad budgetsIreland’s finances are worse than other countries in four key waysTue Oct 09 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: John Bull, not Michel Barnier, is undermining the unionWhen it’s all over, what will be left for Northern Ireland to be united with?Sat Oct 06 2018 - 06:00
