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Fintan O’Toole: Gibraltar's experience exposes British Brexit lies

Fintan O’Toole: Gibraltar's experience exposes British Brexit lies

The Spain-Gibraltar border shows what a customs-union divide looks like

Sat Sept 29 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: #MeToo cannot win in a climate of fear

Fintan O'Toole: #MeToo cannot win in a climate of fear

The departure of Ian Buruma as editor of the ‘New York Review of Books’ should worry everyone who values the freedom of the press

Tue Sept 25 2018 - 02:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s difficulty becomes England’s opportunity

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s difficulty becomes England’s opportunity

Britain’s new Brexit strategy is a cynical reversal of the Irish adage. But it won’t work

Sat Sept 22 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: It is insane to look to developers to solve housing crisis

Fintan O’Toole: It is insane to look to developers to solve housing crisis

Developer-led planning has never met the basic need for shelter. Yet the Government clings to its blind ideological faith in the market.

Tue Sept 18 2018 - 02:00
Fintan O’Toole: Boris Johnson has stopped being funny

Fintan O’Toole: Boris Johnson has stopped being funny

Johnson is not evil, but he is a deeply unserious manchild who pursues only his own pleasures – while ruining the country he purports to love

Sat Sept 15 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: ‘Adults in the room’ are not the resistance – they are Trump collaborators

Fintan O'Toole: ‘Adults in the room’ are not the resistance – they are Trump collaborators

Fintan O’Toole: Self-exculpating mindsets of the enablers are not a form of resistance

Tue Sept 11 2018 - 02:00
Fintan O'Toole: Irish villages are dead unless we come up with plan fast

Fintan O'Toole: Irish villages are dead unless we come up with plan fast

Ireland needs a joined-up national plan for vibrant villages

Tue Sept 04 2018 - 02:00
Fintan O’Toole: The slide into ‘post-truth’ is not inevitable

Fintan O’Toole: The slide into ‘post-truth’ is not inevitable

We should not despair about apparent impossibility of civil discourse – we’ve been here before

Tue Aug 28 2018 - 01:49
Fintan O’Toole: This visit feels too much like a ceremonial procession

Fintan O’Toole: This visit feels too much like a ceremonial procession

Francis cannot escape reality that he heads an institution struggling to confess its sins

Sat Aug 25 2018 - 20:53
It’s too late. Not even Pope Francis can resurrect Catholic Ireland

It’s too late. Not even Pope Francis can resurrect Catholic Ireland

Francis seems a fine person, and the faithful will greet him with joy. But he can’t repair the ruins of a corrupt, abusive institution

Thu Aug 23 2018 - 12:59
Fintan O'Toole: Is the pope a Catholic? Most probably not

Fintan O'Toole: Is the pope a Catholic? Most probably not

Church’s failure to embrace Margaret Cash is at odds with their teaching

Tue Aug 21 2018 - 12:40
Fintan O’Toole: Why is Ireland unable to solve basic problems?

Fintan O’Toole: Why is Ireland unable to solve basic problems?

The Republic is a rich, young, stable country. So why is it so dysfunctional?

Sat Aug 18 2018 - 06:00
Some countries have a haze of smog – we have a haze of smug

Some countries have a haze of smog – we have a haze of smug

Our climate cheques are bouncing but we still think we are an exceptional people

Tue Aug 14 2018 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland, land of a 32-county hockey team and a 26-county rail system

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland, land of a 32-county hockey team and a 26-county rail system

There are very real ways in which there is no such singular place as Ireland

Sat Aug 11 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Bertie is back and Ross is in The Thick of It

Fintan O'Toole: Bertie is back and Ross is in The Thick of It

‘Granny grant’ a symptom of political culture that refuses to build decent public services

Tue Aug 07 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The big hold up for rural broadband is ideology

Fintan O’Toole: The big hold up for rural broadband is ideology

Using the 1950s State electricity model would be a sin against the new orthodoxy

Sat Aug 04 2018 - 08:44
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit Plan B is mash-up of ‘Dad’s Army’ and ‘Mad Max’

Fintan O’Toole: Brexit Plan B is mash-up of ‘Dad’s Army’ and ‘Mad Max’

Contingency plan was to scare Brussels but really only echoes with ‘Don’t panic!’

Tue Jul 31 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: ‘Yeats Test’ criteria reveal we are doomed

Fintan O’Toole: ‘Yeats Test’ criteria reveal we are doomed

Use of WB Yeats by politicians and media is an index of how bad world has become

Sat Jul 28 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland should offer UK precious gift of time

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland should offer UK precious gift of time

Extension of Brexit deadline beyond March 2019 is now a vital Irish interest

Tue Jul 24 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Trump does and says pretty much what Putin wants him to do

Fintan O'Toole: Trump does and says pretty much what Putin wants him to do

The humiliation of Trump is the greatest revenge drama since ‘Hamlet’.

Sat Jul 21 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit White Paper puts UK on road to nowhere

Fintan O’Toole: Brexit White Paper puts UK on road to nowhere

When Britain joined the EU it realised the stakes. Now it is mired in petty politicking

Tue Jul 17 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: There is nothing undemocratic about voting again on Brexit

Fintan O'Toole: There is nothing undemocratic about voting again on Brexit

Second thoughts are the essence of democracy. The Brexit promised in 2016 has vanished so it is time to ask the people again

Sat Jul 14 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Britain has gone to huge trouble to humiliate itself

Fintan O’Toole: Britain has gone to huge trouble to humiliate itself

Best possible Brexit outcome is the worst of both worlds, a state neither in nor out

Tue Jul 10 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: The spectre of the migrant is scaring democracy to death

Fintan O'Toole: The spectre of the migrant is scaring democracy to death

Cutting the numbers of migrants will not stop the rise of the far-right because the anxieties it exploits are ultimately not about migration

Sat Jul 07 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The logic of Trump and fascism is escalating violence

Fintan O’Toole: The logic of Trump and fascism is escalating violence

What can the far right offer in return for people surrendering democratic power?

Tue Jul 03 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The long Irish 19th century is finally over

Fintan O’Toole: The long Irish 19th century is finally over

The Victorian notion of charity is dying, along with Catholicism and Anglophobia

Sat Jun 30 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow

Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow

Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism

Tue Jun 26 2018 - 05:00
Drumm too dull to understand what he was part of and too thick to feel pain of others’ suffering

Drumm too dull to understand what he was part of and too thick to feel pain of others’ suffering

The Anglo Irish Bank boss was inflated by people’s need to believe in his magic money

Sat Jun 23 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Banks are public institutions masquerading as private businesses

Fintan O’Toole: Banks are public institutions masquerading as private businesses

Pressure is mounting for top bankers’ pay limits to be lifted. It should be resisted

Tue Jun 19 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is becoming the tax haven of choice for profit-shifting multinationals

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is becoming the tax haven of choice for profit-shifting multinationals

Our national symbol is no longer the Tricolour but a big sign saying ‘12.5%’

Sat Jun 16 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Brexiteers cannot allow the English bulldog to be wagged by an Irish tail

Fintan O'Toole: Brexiteers cannot allow the English bulldog to be wagged by an Irish tail

The truth is that the Brexiteers don’t give a flying frig for Ireland, North or South

Tue Jun 12 2018 - 15:55
Fintan O’Toole: How to honour our unshamed Magdalenes

Fintan O’Toole: How to honour our unshamed Magdalenes

The last Magdalene laundry, which shut only in 1996, should become a memorial centre

Sat Jun 09 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: National Anthem is tone deaf to new Ireland

Fintan O’Toole: National Anthem is tone deaf to new Ireland

Enshrining ‘Amhrán na bhFiann’ in law is out of tune with radically altered identity

Tue Jun 05 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Catholic Ireland is now a religious rust belt of half-empty churches

Fintan O’Toole: Catholic Ireland is now a religious rust belt of half-empty churches

The authoritarian version of Catholicism is over. In other forms it is alive and well

Sat Jun 02 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Repeal supporters must not treat No voters as freaks

Fintan O’Toole: Repeal supporters must not treat No voters as freaks

Ireland is too ambiguous to sustain culture wars. Post-vote, we need to win the peace for social justice

Tue May 29 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Abortion result shows democracy can rise above hysteria and hate

Fintan O’Toole: Abortion result shows democracy can rise above hysteria and hate

Ireland has voted No to tribalism and fear in overwhelming decision to remove the Eighth

Sun May 27 2018 - 07:34
Fintan O’Toole: A United Ireland isn’t what it used to be

Fintan O’Toole: A United Ireland isn’t what it used to be

Twenty years ago we voted for a new vision of Irish nationalism. Don’t let Brexit drive us back

Sat May 26 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Real choice is not Yes or No. It is What If? or As If

Fintan O’Toole: Real choice is not Yes or No. It is What If? or As If

We cannot vote to impose on others what we do not really know ourselves

Tue May 22 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole on Tom Murphy the Irish Orpheus

Fintan O’Toole on Tom Murphy the Irish Orpheus

This is the text of O’Toole’s eulogy delivered at the service in the Mansion House

Sat May 19 2018 - 15:00
Fintan O’Toole: Abortion issue creates and sustains tribal politics

Fintan O’Toole: Abortion issue creates and sustains tribal politics

In 1983, the conservative Catholic John Healy could also be a staunch opponent of the Eighth Amendment

Sat May 19 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Tom Murphy documented the inner history of modern Ireland

Fintan O’Toole: Tom Murphy documented the inner history of modern Ireland

Writer of ‘A Whistle in the Dark’ and ‘Conversations on a Homecoming’ dies at age of 83

Tue May 15 2018 - 23:37
Fintan O’Toole: Why are the State's great secrets often about women's bodies?

Fintan O’Toole: Why are the State's great secrets often about women's bodies?

Our Republic still exists in the long shadow of shame. Why would it not?

Tue May 15 2018 - 10:36
Fintan O'Toole: On abortion we are subjects of Brexit Britain

Fintan O'Toole: On abortion we are subjects of Brexit Britain

Anti-abortionists depend on pagan England to uphold their vision of a holy Ireland

Sat May 12 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: In health system culture change is just a buzzword

Fintan O’Toole: In health system culture change is just a buzzword

Ireland has failed to create a health service owned by people and not vested interests

Tue May 08 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Women die while outrage after outrage fails to shift attitudes

Fintan O’Toole: Women die while outrage after outrage fails to shift attitudes

Women’s health is a matter of faith and the medical and political authorities must be believed without question

Sat May 05 2018 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: 8th Amendment demands punishment for women

Fintan O’Toole: 8th Amendment demands punishment for women

Constitutional ban means Ireland too extreme even for mainstream social conservatives

Tue May 01 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Jacob Rees-Mogg, great satirist of our times

Fintan O’Toole: Jacob Rees-Mogg, great satirist of our times

If Brexiteers knew anything about Irish food they would keep their mouths shut

Sat Apr 28 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: How I discovered what I felt about abortion

Fintan O'Toole: How I discovered what I felt about abortion

I was 18 when asked to help a girl get an abortion. I knew it was not about me, it was about her

Tue Apr 24 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Conservatives have abandoned their core principles

Fintan O’Toole: Conservatives have abandoned their core principles

The rich were only pretending they cared about prudence, law and family values

Sat Apr 21 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Was the DUP involved in Brexit campaign fraud?

Fintan O’Toole: Was the DUP involved in Brexit campaign fraud?

The party is implicated in what appears to be a serious undermining of the voting process

Tue Apr 17 2018 - 05:00
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