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
Fintan O'Toole: Trump and Brexit are the result when government stops helping peopleDecades of deriding public service has led the UK and US into political anarchyTue Jun 20 2017 - 04:00
Transgression used to be an artistic tactic. Now it belongs to the far rightFintan O’Toole: Have shock tactics had their day?Sat Jun 17 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: DUP’s crush on Britain will end badlyConservative party thinks of England as it clasps Democratic Unionists to its bosomSat Jun 17 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Theresa May faces Irish obstacle on the Brexit tracksArlene Foster’s DUP will tie British government into believing three impossible thingsTue Jun 13 2017 - 01:00
Galway native Prof Philip Pettit honoured in queen’s birthday listGracious Irish political theorist says ‘it’s the message that counts, not the messenger’Mon Jun 12 2017 - 18:21
Queen Theresa's bid for throne ends in ignominyFintan O’Toole: In all of this panic there has been a deep undermining of the idea of political authorityFri Jun 09 2017 - 08:34
No’s Knife: much ado about nothing? Absolutely notBeckett’s ‘Textes Pour Rien’ convey a sense of being cut adrift from life, from existence itself. Actor Lisa Dwan conveys this absence with startling presenceTue Jun 06 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Corbyn’s nostalgia less of a fantasy than May’sBoth parties offer versions of an imagined past but Labour’s at least yearns for something realTue Jun 06 2017 - 04:00
Terrorism is becoming normal, and that will be its undoingFintan O’Toole: Attacks on civil society are futile. Humans have a great capacity to just carry onSun Jun 04 2017 - 18:07
Fintan O’Toole: Paris accord exit signals end of US global leadershipChina grasps opportunity to be at the forefront of epic battle for planetary survivalFri Jun 02 2017 - 12:01
Fintan O’Toole: AIB sale shows a servile attitude to the EUObsequiousness towards Brussels technocracy is as bad for Europe as it is for IrelandTue May 30 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: Killing is easy, living decently in the face of it is hardManchester attack shows if you want to force horror into people’s minds, it is better to attack childrenTue May 23 2017 - 15:04
The Keepers shows the struggle between good and evil in the churchNetflix documentary speaks to Ireland’s uncertain relationship to CatholicismTue May 23 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: Leo or Simon? It doesn’t matter muchTo home owners with health insurance, the Fine Gael leadership contest is an interesting political battle. To the disaffected citizens, renters and invalids of post-austerity Ireland, it will make no differenceSat May 20 2017 - 05:58
What connects Brexit, the DUP, dark money and a Saudi prince?The story of a massive donation to the DUP is like a John le Carré novel – but voters need facts, not fictionTue May 16 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s firing of FBI boss reveals the method in his madnessTrump’s instinctive gamble has always been that his fans would be happy to live vicariously through himWed May 10 2017 - 17:31
Fintan O’Toole: State has taken a bizarre trip back to the 1950sBlasphemy, Dáil prayer and maternity hospital rows prove the Republic has lost its wayTue May 09 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: Artists’ work cannot be measured like widgetsCulture Shock: Colm Tóibín is right to say the Arts Council cnuas plan is ‘oddly North Korean’Fri May 05 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Ethos is a word for arbitrary powerJesus once told nuns to sack pregnant teachers. So why has he changed his mind?Tue May 02 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: How Trump blew his first 100 daysUS president could have got cross-party support but chose reality TV-style conflict insteadSat Apr 29 2017 - 09:24
Fintan O’Toole: Church control of hospitals maintains myth of charityMaternity hospital debacle a symptom of public services as favours, not rightsTue Apr 25 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: An artful tale of Cork criminalsBook review: Lisa McInerney’s follow-up to ‘The Glorious Heresies’ is a well-made thrillerSat Apr 22 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit means Ireland must be the anti-EnglandSeeing ourselves as opposites used to be a bad idea. Now it might be a necessityThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:43
Fintan O'Toole: Review of Garda pointless until we change our idea of crimeThere is prima facie evidence banks carried out a huge fraud. Where are the Garda?Thu Apr 20 2017 - 16:38
Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s Syria intervention is for the wrong reasonsUS strikes are a result of the president’s belief that the world must be shaped by his moodsThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:37
The world's turmoil is down to boredom. Art can fight thisIn a culture that swings between tedium and hysteria, art is a democratic necessitySat Apr 08 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Nóirín O’Sullivan makes even Enda Kenny seem defeatistGarda Commissioner survives because Government is asking absurd questionTue Apr 04 2017 - 10:11
Fintan O’Toole: After Brexit, who will be UK’s Michael Collins?No one in the British government has the courage to be a true patriotTue Mar 28 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s love triangleWhen the UK triggers article 50 Ireland will have to do the thing it hates most: pick a sideSat Mar 25 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Progressives must be the first to call out treacheryAfter Trump and the Brexiteers betray their voters, who will channel the anger?Tue Mar 21 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is still defined by the church’s mindsetA vast system of Catholic repression has left Irish society with four toxic habits of mindTue Mar 14 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: We are undocumented but they are illegalThere is tacit racism in the appeal to Trump to make Irish migrants a special caseTue Mar 07 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: Kenny can either simper to Trump or speak upThe Taoiseach should speak as passionately as he did when denouncing the Vatican in 2011Sat Mar 04 2017 - 06:01
In the Trump era, artists need to do more than make protest speechesSteve Bannon – Trump’s brain – believes in a single US culture. His white-nationalist ideology gives that notion some sinister echoesFri Mar 03 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: For Donald Trump, good news is bad newsJournalists must learn how to cope with a government narrative of danger and declineTue Feb 28 2017 - 04:00
Nothing changes because Establishment takes care of its ownAfter stepping down from Justice, Brian Purcell was handed a plum job at the HSETue Feb 21 2017 - 04:00
Fintan O'Toole: The Maurice McCabe affair is our worst scandal yetThe realisation you live in a State in which people with huge power over you will go to such lengths sends a shiver down the spineSat Feb 18 2017 - 13:38
