Drumm too dull to understand what he was part of and too thick to feel pain of others’ sufferingThe Anglo Irish Bank boss was inflated by people’s need to believe in his magic moneySat Jun 23 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Banks are public institutions masquerading as private businessesPressure is mounting for top bankers’ pay limits to be lifted. It should be resistedTue Jun 19 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is becoming the tax haven of choice for profit-shifting multinationalsOur 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 tailThe truth is that the Brexiteers don’t give a flying frig for Ireland, North or SouthTue Jun 12 2018 - 15:55
Fintan O’Toole: How to honour our unshamed MagdalenesThe last Magdalene laundry, which shut only in 1996, should become a memorial centreSat Jun 09 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: National Anthem is tone deaf to new IrelandEnshrining ‘Amhrán na bhFiann’ in law is out of tune with radically altered identityTue Jun 05 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Catholic Ireland is now a religious rust belt of half-empty churchesThe authoritarian version of Catholicism is over. In other forms it is alive and wellSat Jun 02 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Repeal supporters must not treat No voters as freaksIreland is too ambiguous to sustain culture wars. Post-vote, we need to win the peace for social justiceTue May 29 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Abortion result shows democracy can rise above hysteria and hateIreland has voted No to tribalism and fear in overwhelming decision to remove the EighthSun May 27 2018 - 07:34
Fintan O’Toole: A United Ireland isn’t what it used to beTwenty years ago we voted for a new vision of Irish nationalism. Don’t let Brexit drive us backSat May 26 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Real choice is not Yes or No. It is What If? or As IfWe cannot vote to impose on others what we do not really know ourselvesTue May 22 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole on Tom Murphy the Irish OrpheusThis is the text of O’Toole’s eulogy delivered at the service in the Mansion HouseSat May 19 2018 - 15:00
Fintan O’Toole: Abortion issue creates and sustains tribal politicsIn 1983, the conservative Catholic John Healy could also be a staunch opponent of the Eighth AmendmentSat May 19 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Tom Murphy documented the inner history of modern IrelandWriter of ‘A Whistle in the Dark’ and ‘Conversations on a Homecoming’ dies at age of 83Tue May 15 2018 - 23:37
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 BritainAnti-abortionists depend on pagan England to uphold their vision of a holy IrelandSat May 12 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: In health system culture change is just a buzzwordIreland has failed to create a health service owned by people and not vested interestsTue May 08 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Women die while outrage after outrage fails to shift attitudesWomen’s health is a matter of faith and the medical and political authorities must be believed without questionSat May 05 2018 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: 8th Amendment demands punishment for womenConstitutional ban means Ireland too extreme even for mainstream social conservativesTue May 01 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Jacob Rees-Mogg, great satirist of our timesIf Brexiteers knew anything about Irish food they would keep their mouths shutSat Apr 28 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: How I discovered what I felt about abortionI was 18 when asked to help a girl get an abortion. I knew it was not about me, it was about herTue Apr 24 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Conservatives have abandoned their core principlesThe rich were only pretending they cared about prudence, law and family valuesSat Apr 21 2018 - 06:00
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 processTue Apr 17 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: A Trump war now looks inevitableThe blowhard president is poised to bumble into a major military conflictSat Apr 14 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Eighth Amendment has failed even conservativesEffect was arguably to break silence on abortion and make it more acceptableTue Apr 10 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Five books to understand the Irish BorderEssential reading: From bleak pictures at border towns, to the threat of a return to a raw and recent pastMon Apr 09 2018 - 11:12
Fintan O’Toole: Denis O’Brien’s thin skin at odds with role of major media playerHe has long seen himself as a victim of widespread media and political efforts to do him downSat Apr 07 2018 - 06:30
Fintan O’Toole: We need to talk to our boys about male honourDecency shouldn’t have to be defined as manly. Belfast rape trial shows what can happen if it isn’tTue Apr 03 2018 - 05:00
Martin Luther King’s final speech analysed by Fintan O’TooleKing delivered this speech on April 3rd, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was shot next daySat Mar 31 2018 - 06:00
Martin Luther King, America’s ‘naked, brazen challenger’: by Fintan O’TooleKing’s murder 50 years ago in Memphis represented an irreparable loss to humanitySat Mar 31 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Abortion fake-news firestorm heading our wayWhy 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 linkBefore the Brexit vote back in 2016 the party hired the firm’s AggregateIQ stablemateSat Mar 24 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: No, Taoiseach, Irish values are not American valuesLeo Varadkar’s sycophantic US speech was a travesty of Irish culture and historyTue 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 dealThe Irish culture of my childhood defined Ireland as whatever England was notSat Mar 17 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: The populism of the far right is utterly phoneyWe need to take the reactionary threat seriously without taking seriously the grandiose self-image of the reactionariesTue Mar 13 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The problem isn’t the SCU. It’s Leo VaradkarThe Taoiseach prefers strategic communications to communicating a strategySat Mar 10 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: British can’t deliver promises of frictionless tradeRecent history shows the UK cannot deliver a smooth and invisible borderTue Mar 06 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Unionism traps itself in a 1950s sci-fi B-movieMomentous EU text on the Border has left the DUP and the Tories praying for a miracleSat Mar 03 2018 - 08:37
Fintan O’Toole: Brexiteers are Britain’s biggest MarxistsTory hardliners are driven by a bizarre and contradictory economic determinismTue Feb 27 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Belfast Agreement is flawed, but not in the way Brexiteers thinkBrexit’s true believers have just realised the treaty makes the hard Brexit they desire virtually impossibleSat Feb 24 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: 15 steps to help England climb down over BrexitFrom penalty shoot-outs and the Falklands to Rory McIlroy and bendy bananasTue Feb 20 2018 - 05:00
The Theatre of Tom Murphy by Nicholas Grene review: An impressive overviewScholars and critics will use this fine book as the diving board from which to plunge into the fascinating depths of the great Irish playwrightSat Feb 17 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: No integration please, we’re IrishTen years ago, integration was an imperative. Then the our Republic did nothingSat Feb 17 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Hope for woefully neglected cultural infrastructurePlan isn’t visionary but €725m might rescue some national institutions from years of neglectSat Feb 17 2018 - 01:23
Fintan O'Toole: Plans for culture may see hope triumph over experienceNational Development Plan: €75m a year will go a long towards making the main national cultural establishments fit for purposeFri Feb 16 2018 - 18:20
Fintan O'Toole: Irexit would be the end of Irish nationalismA campaign to get Ireland to follow Britain out of the EU is doomed to failTue Feb 13 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Coveney would take us back to era of lying womenHaving to make rape claim to access abortion services recipe for deceit and hypocrisyTue Feb 06 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Is Brexit the maddest thing England has ever done? Not quiteEven the worst Brexit will be nothing like the catastrophe of the Hundred Years WarSat Feb 03 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: For working-class commuters it’s a long and winding roadBehind the College Green bus ban is old-fashioned class discriminationTue Jan 30 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Questioning Nóirín O’Sullivan is like playing handball against a haystackEx-Garda chief shed no light on strategy of impugning McCabe’s motives at tribunalSat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00
