Fintan O'Toole: If the Government is innocent why is it acting so guilty?The weirdness of this political crisis is that so far it is all cover-up and no crimeSat Nov 25 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is nobody’s little darling any moreWe’ve lost our exotic allure without replacing it with the attraction of efficiencyTue Nov 21 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Harassment revelations are good for menMen and boys are victims both of abuse and of the toxic idea of masculinity that fuels itSat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit means we are bordering on the absurdThe UK’s move may result in a return to the pointless rituals of inspection at the BorderTue Nov 14 2017 - 05:00
Bono is a hypocrite – and so is IrelandFintan O’Toole: Ireland has sold its soul but is getting a very good price for itSat Nov 11 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Let’s imagine the homeless have foot-and-mouthCattle disease outbreak showed how State can use every sinew to solve a crisisTue Nov 07 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: 'Nama Land' is a very valuable account of the agencyReview: Frank Connolly's book is admirably lucid and deeply researchedSat Nov 04 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Why Donald Trump is the Tony Soprano of US politicsTrump – one year on: The president plays a character, one whose divisiveness his supporters adoreSat Nov 04 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: If theatre is not a safe space, what is left?A case taken by an actress against a Trinity student in 1747 gives the lie to the notion that there was a time when sexual harrassment in the workplace was okaySat Nov 04 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Boys must behave if women are to be safeMen’s treatment of women will not change unless boys are taught mannersTue Oct 31 2017 - 05:00
Declan Kiberd’s very lively postmortem on RepublicAfter Ireland review:Fintan O’Toole on a witty, engaging but sometimes baffling take on literature since 1945Sat Oct 28 2017 - 06:00
The world has never needed George Bernard Shaw moreFintan O'Toole: Shaw changed not what people thought but the way they thoughtSat Oct 28 2017 - 06:00
We all know a Tom Humphries, even if we don’t know we doFintan O'Toole: It would be easier if the men who do these things were not men but beastsSat Oct 28 2017 - 05:30
Fintan O'Toole: The corruption of Irish banking goes back 30 yearsThe betrayal of basic ethics goes so deep only the criminal law can root it outTue Oct 24 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Tracker scam must become criminal inquiryThe banks’ rip-off of customers is not a scandal. It is either a miracle or a crimeSat Oct 21 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The lie that poverty is a moral failing was buried a century ago. Now it’s backGeorge Bernard Shaw knew that the rich are no better than the poor. But though the argument seemed settled then, it now rages more fiercely than everWed Oct 18 2017 - 11:43
Fintan O’Toole: Key questions Ryan Tubridy didn’t ask Richard BransonTubridy interview with Branson avoided issue of ‘fun’ manhandling of womenTue Oct 17 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Communicorp fatwa is hysterical, but it’s not funnyBlacklisting ‘The Irish Times’ is an exercise in distraction but it raises important questionsTue Oct 10 2017 - 06:30
Fintan O’Toole: Why Tom Murphy’s work stands with the best of his contemporariesCulture Shock: The ‘Bailegangaire’ writer produces both realism and mythSat Oct 07 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: When is a terrorist not a terrorist?Atrocities are tolerable when they are fed by a very profitable consumer industry and the fantasies of power it createsSat Oct 07 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: How Liam Cosgrave embodied the StateLike the Ireland of his time, Cosgrave’s achievements were a function of his limitationsWed Oct 04 2017 - 21:15
Fintan O’Toole: Abortion is the Jarndyce and Jarndyce of Irish politicsEighth Amendment needs to be finally uprooted, not fertilised with yet more equivocationsTue Oct 03 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Tories have already betrayed the DUPDespite their deal, the Conservatives are cutting the ground from under their ‘mates’Tue Sept 26 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Britain must accept ambiguity to survive BrexitTheresa May and Brexiteers both insist on a damaging binary view of the UK and EuropeSat Sept 23 2017 - 05:16
Fintan O’Toole: We have returned to 1913 conditions - families living in a single roomPolitical solution needed as building industry cannot solve permanent emergencyTue Sept 19 2017 - 05:00
The Lure of Greatness: the best book about Brexit so farFintan O'Toole on how the failure of Britain was deflected on to the EUSat Sept 16 2017 - 06:00
George Hook’s right to free speech ends where it does gratuitous harmFintan O’Toole: Who’d want to be associated with his views on rape? Not advertisersSat Sept 16 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: Why I will not appear on Newstalk againGeorge Hook’s rape comments are the result of the station’s flagrantly sexist strategyTue Sept 12 2017 - 09:39
Fintan O'Toole: Tax breaks for housing developers show Fianna Fáil's true coloursMartin Keane’s tales of getting the inside track show gap between rhetoric and realityTue Sept 05 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Parishes of Fermanagh and Tyrone are unravelling BrexitLeo Varadkar must show steel and support Jeremy Corbyn over Theresa MayTue Aug 29 2017 - 05:00
The State of Us, Part 4: The ties that bindFintan O'Toole: A reimagined republic should define the new Irish identityWed Aug 23 2017 - 01:15
The State of Us, Part 3: Irish nationalism needs a revolutionWe have moved beyond the shame and glory of the past, but have yet to invent our future nationTue Aug 22 2017 - 01:00
The State of Us, Part 2: Irish identity is no longer fit for purposeIreland’s old markers of land, nationality and religion fail to reflect changes in societyMon Aug 21 2017 - 01:04
The State of Us, Part 1: Ireland’s story doesn’t make sense any moreGlobalisation, migration and Catholicism’s decline have undermined stories of ourselvesSat Aug 19 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: UK government’s border proposals for Ireland are absurdThe Brexit position paper feels more like an early move in the blame game than a credible plan. But this is not a game, it’s deadly seriousThu Aug 17 2017 - 11:45
Fintan O’Toole: United Ireland will not be based on ‘50 per cent plus one’Brexit has made Irish unity more likely, but we need to reunify people firstTue Aug 15 2017 - 05:00
Paul O’Connell and Ryan Tubridy are not artists who need a tax breakFintan O’Toole: The artists’ tax exemption scheme has become an embarrasmentSat Aug 12 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexiteers’ foolishness gives Ireland controlBritish politicians’ time-wasting and ignorance has shifted the balance of powerTue Aug 08 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: There will always be a market for misogynyCod-Darwinism touted by those who dismiss gender equality does not stack upSat Aug 05 2017 - 05:30
Fintan O’Toole: Kevin Myers broke the only rule that mattersIf he had stuck with straight misogyny, he would have been fineTue Aug 01 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Spend my water charges on reversing austerityInstead of being the last act in a long-running farce that made a mockery of our democracy, the money we paid should be used for a decent democratic experimentTue Jul 25 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The homeless are trapped in a hellish circleGoverning policies mean that homeless families are now too poor for social housingTue Jul 18 2017 - 04:00
Fake Birmingham apology is part of the IRA’s twisting of historyBrazen lie underpins republican evasions about 1974 bombings that killed 21Sat Jul 15 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Rugby is an emergency, homeless kids can waitGovernment meets rugby event deadline but misses one on homeless childrenTue Jul 11 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: EU is still at risk of slow self-destructionIf response to Brexit is just ‘good riddance’, the EU may sleepwalk into its own demise. Our ‘Europe’s Future’ series concludesSat Jul 08 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Jobstown trial was no conspiracy, just class biasSystem punishes working class misdeeds but turns blind eye to middle-class crimeTue Jul 04 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole reviews Naomi Klein: a live story frozenNo Is Not Enough lays out the case against Donald Trump in an accessible but unoriginal waySat Jul 01 2017 - 06:00
Why doesn’t the Terry Wogan statue work? Because he’s a celebThe Terry Wogan statue in Limerick is a case of a good artist producing bad artSat Jul 01 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland must be tough to avoid being sold out in Brexit dealLessons from bailout show State cannot take goodwill of our European allies for grantedTue Jun 27 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: Nóirín O’Sullivan fluent in Wyssn and MangleishObfuscating Garda Commissioner has taken unaccountablity to a new level in IrelandSat Jun 24 2017 - 01:00
