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Fintan O’Toole: A Trump war now looks inevitable

Fintan O’Toole: A Trump war now looks inevitable

The blowhard president is poised to bumble into a major military conflict

Sat Apr 14 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Eighth Amendment has failed even conservatives

Fintan O’Toole: Eighth Amendment has failed even conservatives

Effect was arguably to break silence on abortion and make it more acceptable

Tue Apr 10 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Five books to understand the Irish Border

Fintan O’Toole: Five books to understand the Irish Border

Essential reading: From bleak pictures at border towns, to the threat of a return to a raw and recent past

Mon Apr 09 2018 - 11:12
Fintan O’Toole: Denis O’Brien’s thin skin at odds with role of major media player

Fintan O’Toole: Denis O’Brien’s thin skin at odds with role of major media player

He has long seen himself as a victim of widespread media and political efforts to do him down

Sat Apr 07 2018 - 06:30
Fintan O’Toole: We need to talk to our boys about male honour

Fintan O’Toole: We need to talk to our boys about male honour

Decency shouldn’t have to be defined as manly. Belfast rape trial shows what can happen if it isn’t

Tue Apr 03 2018 - 05:00
Martin Luther King, America’s ‘naked, brazen challenger’: by Fintan O’Toole

Martin Luther King, America’s ‘naked, brazen challenger’: by Fintan O’Toole

King’s murder 50 years ago in Memphis represented an irreparable loss to humanity

Sat Mar 31 2018 - 06:00
Martin Luther King’s final speech analysed by Fintan O’Toole

Martin Luther King’s final speech analysed by Fintan O’Toole

King delivered this speech on April 3rd, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was shot next day

Sat Mar 31 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Abortion fake-news firestorm heading our way

Fintan O’Toole: Abortion fake-news firestorm heading our way

Why has Save the 8th hired consultant at heart of Trump-Mercer-Brexit data nexus?

Tue Mar 27 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The DUP’s Cambridge Analytica link

Fintan O’Toole: The DUP’s Cambridge Analytica link

Before the Brexit vote back in 2016 the party hired the firm’s AggregateIQ stablemate

Sat Mar 24 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: No, Taoiseach, Irish values are not American values

Fintan O’Toole: No, Taoiseach, Irish values are not American values

Leo Varadkar’s sycophantic US speech was a travesty of Irish culture and history

Tue Mar 20 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The British and Irish are no big deal to each other, which itself is a very big deal

Fintan O’Toole: The British and Irish are no big deal to each other, which itself is a very big deal

The Irish culture of my childhood defined Ireland as whatever England was not

Sat Mar 17 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: The populism of the far right is utterly phoney

Fintan O'Toole: The populism of the far right is utterly phoney

We need to take the reactionary threat seriously without taking seriously the grandiose self-image of the reactionaries

Tue Mar 13 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The problem isn’t the SCU. It’s Leo Varadkar

Fintan O’Toole: The problem isn’t the SCU. It’s Leo Varadkar

The Taoiseach prefers strategic communications to communicating a strategy

Sat Mar 10 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: British can’t deliver promises of frictionless trade

Fintan O’Toole: British can’t deliver promises of frictionless trade

Recent history shows the UK cannot deliver a smooth and invisible border

Tue Mar 06 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Unionism traps itself in a 1950s sci-fi B-movie

Fintan O’Toole: Unionism traps itself in a 1950s sci-fi B-movie

Momentous EU text on the Border has left the DUP and the Tories praying for a miracle

Sat Mar 03 2018 - 08:37
Fintan O’Toole: Brexiteers are Britain’s biggest Marxists

Fintan O’Toole: Brexiteers are Britain’s biggest Marxists

Tory hardliners are driven by a bizarre and contradictory economic determinism

Tue Feb 27 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Belfast Agreement is flawed, but not in the way Brexiteers think

Fintan O’Toole: The Belfast Agreement is flawed, but not in the way Brexiteers think

Brexit’s true believers have just realised the treaty makes the hard Brexit they desire virtually impossible

Sat Feb 24 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: 15 steps to help England climb down over Brexit

Fintan O’Toole: 15 steps to help England climb down over Brexit

From penalty shoot-outs and the Falklands to Rory McIlroy and bendy bananas

Tue Feb 20 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: No integration please, we’re Irish

Fintan O’Toole: No integration please, we’re Irish

Ten years ago, integration was an imperative. Then the our Republic did nothing

Sat Feb 17 2018 - 06:00
The Theatre of Tom Murphy by Nicholas Grene review: An impressive overview

The Theatre of Tom Murphy by Nicholas Grene review: An impressive overview

Scholars and critics will use this fine book as the diving board from which to plunge into the fascinating depths of the great Irish playwright

Sat Feb 17 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Hope for woefully neglected cultural infrastructure

Fintan O’Toole: Hope for woefully neglected cultural infrastructure

Plan isn’t visionary but €725m might rescue some national institutions from years of neglect

Sat Feb 17 2018 - 01:23
Fintan O'Toole: Plans for culture may see hope triumph over experience

Fintan O'Toole: Plans for culture may see hope triumph over experience

National Development Plan: €75m a year will go a long towards making the main national cultural establishments fit for purpose

Fri Feb 16 2018 - 18:20
Fintan O'Toole: Irexit would be the end of Irish nationalism

Fintan O'Toole: Irexit would be the end of Irish nationalism

A campaign to get Ireland to follow Britain out of the EU is doomed to fail

Tue Feb 13 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Coveney would take us back to era of lying women

Fintan O'Toole: Coveney would take us back to era of lying women

Having to make rape claim to access abortion services recipe for deceit and hypocrisy

Tue Feb 06 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Is Brexit the maddest thing England has ever done? Not quite

Fintan O’Toole: Is Brexit the maddest thing England has ever done? Not quite

Even the worst Brexit will be nothing like the catastrophe of the Hundred Years War

Sat Feb 03 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: For working-class commuters it’s a long and winding road

Fintan O’Toole: For working-class commuters it’s a long and winding road

Behind the College Green bus ban is old-fashioned class discrimination

Tue Jan 30 2018 - 05:00

Rise Above! Letters from Tyrone Guthrie review: an admirable collection

Fintan O’Toole on Christopher Fitz-Simon’s edition of the great theatre director’s delightfully lively letters

Sat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Questioning Nóirín O’Sullivan is like playing handball against a haystack

Fintan O'Toole: Questioning Nóirín O’Sullivan is like playing handball against a haystack

Ex-Garda chief shed no light on strategy of impugning McCabe’s motives at tribunal

Sat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Child with Down syndrome will be face of anti-abortion campaign

Fintan O’Toole: Child with Down syndrome will be face of anti-abortion campaign

Those who favour Eighth Amendment repeal will have to show why it will not lead to ‘screening out’ of people with disabilities

Tue Jan 23 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s inaugural speech was phony and honest

Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s inaugural speech was phony and honest

As Donald Trump was sworn in a year ago, few believed he’d be as bad as they feared

Sat Jan 20 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: A Baptism barrier would solve our hospital crisis

Fintan O’Toole: A Baptism barrier would solve our hospital crisis

The A&E crisis could easily be solved in Catholic hospitals by turning away infidels

Tue Jan 16 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The A&E crisis is perfectly acceptable

Fintan O’Toole: The A&E crisis is perfectly acceptable

The HSE’s grotesque winter festival has become as regular as Christmas

Sat Jan 13 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump and Brexit are products of Sutherland’s success

Fintan O’Toole: Trump and Brexit are products of Sutherland’s success

As a father of globalisation Peter Sutherland leaves a problematic legacy

Tue Jan 09 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Has Ireland had a lost decade?

Fintan O’Toole: Has Ireland had a lost decade?

The Crash – 10 years on: Is Ireland a wiser and better-governed place than it was in the years of folly and frolic?

Sat Jan 06 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Brexit was only supposed to blow the bloody doors off

Fintan O'Toole: Brexit was only supposed to blow the bloody doors off

The last moments of ‘The Italian Job’ are a perfect metaphor for the UK in 2018

Tue Jan 02 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The marching, charging feet of 1968

Fintan O’Toole: The marching, charging feet of 1968

Fifty years ago the world was on the brink of revolution. Then the right struck back

Sat Dec 30 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole on 2017: The year weird became the new normal

Fintan O’Toole on 2017: The year weird became the new normal

Nothing will be quite the same after Trump, Weinstein and Brexit

Sat Dec 23 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Ireland's abortion regime is too cruel even for Trump

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland's abortion regime is too cruel even for Trump

Eighth Amendment law about locking up women and doctors really is step too far

Tue Dec 19 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: UK voted for Brexit because citizens feel their country is ‘broken’. It can be fixed

Fintan O’Toole: UK voted for Brexit because citizens feel their country is ‘broken’. It can be fixed

Decades of demonisation made the EU a natural fit in the search for an 'oppressor' to revolt against

Sat Dec 16 2017 - 06:00
Bittersweet insights into Van Morrison’s Belfast

Bittersweet insights into Van Morrison’s Belfast

In Another World is a lovely and lively exploration of Morrison’s music and its impact on the poet Gerald Dawe

Sat Dec 16 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Crumlin children do not need Conor McGregor’s gangsta fantasies

Fintan O’Toole: Crumlin children do not need Conor McGregor’s gangsta fantasies

Crumlin shook off the negative stereotypes of my youth, but he is bringing them back

Tue Dec 12 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: In humiliating May, DUP killed the thing it loves

Fintan O’Toole: In humiliating May, DUP killed the thing it loves

The DUP’s brinkmanship and manoeuvring have exposed Britain’s powerlessness

Sat Dec 09 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland has just saved the UK from the madness of a hard Brexit

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland has just saved the UK from the madness of a hard Brexit

If the UK mirrors customs union, why bother leaving EU in the first place?

Fri Dec 08 2017 - 10:50
Fintan O’Toole: Hard Brexiteers have just discovered Britain is weaker than Ireland

Fintan O’Toole: Hard Brexiteers have just discovered Britain is weaker than Ireland

Drama of Border talks shows how well EU protects members. Is there a lesson there?

Tue Dec 05 2017 - 08:43
Fintan O’Toole: The only thanks for whistleblowers is abuse

Fintan O’Toole: The only thanks for whistleblowers is abuse

Political damage of McCabe saga rooted in instinct to punish troublemakers

Tue Dec 05 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Five ways to purge politics of ‘dysfunction’

Fintan O’Toole: Five ways to purge politics of ‘dysfunction’

It is not just the Department of Justice that is ‘dysfunctional’. It is Irish democracy

Sat Dec 02 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole on Jonathan Swift: a moral giant and founder of Anglo-Irish writing

Fintan O’Toole on Jonathan Swift: a moral giant and founder of Anglo-Irish writing

350 years after his birth, Swift’s savage indignation can still reach right into our hearts

Thu Nov 30 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Did the Department of Justice engage in a deliberate act of subversion?

Fintan O’Toole: Did the Department of Justice engage in a deliberate act of subversion?

‘We have to assume withholding of the emails from Charleton was deliberate’

Tue Nov 28 2017 - 13:40
Fintan O'Toole: This is wrong time for a political circus

Fintan O'Toole: This is wrong time for a political circus

Our politicians are indulging in high-wire acts when they should be playing poker

Tue Nov 28 2017 - 05:00
The hard-won kinship between Britain and Ireland is threatened by Brexit idiocy

The hard-won kinship between Britain and Ireland is threatened by Brexit idiocy

An alliance decades in the making is threatened by an utter lack of progress over the post-separation border

Mon Nov 27 2017 - 09:26
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