Fintan O’Toole: Want to change the world? Join a unionYoung workers are realising that being a ‘partner’ or ‘team member’ is no substitute for the power of the collectiveSat Jul 02 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: America’s right should be careful what it wishes forPro-Life Amendment Campaign of 1983 in Ireland was harbinger of disaster for religious conservativesTue Jun 28 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: The real Irish revolution has been occurring since the 1990sThis year’s B&A Sign of the Times report provides a useful reminder of how radically altered Irish life has been since 1991Sat Jun 25 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland has tested positive for political cowardice It seems the presence of big pharma companies here meant Ireland rowed in behind big pharmaTue Jun 21 2022 - 05:08
Fintan O’Toole: Would Ukrainians still feel welcome if they were not white and Christian?It would take 44 hours to drive from Mariupol in Ukraine to Dublin and 54 hours to drive from Aleppo in Syria. Why does that 10-hour difference place Mariupol in our neighbourhood, while Aleppo is outside it?Sat Jun 18 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Boris Johnson does not need solution on the NI protocol. He needs a warTruth and moral sensibility have no place in the Johnsonian metaverseTue Jun 14 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Both Queen Elizabeth and Boris Johnson embody a polity on its way outFintan O’Toole: Britain is now living in The Long GoodbyeSat Jun 11 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Idiocy of managerialism hits Dublin Airport Everybody bar 13 Dublin Airport Authority executives paid more than a quarter of a million euro a year each knew that demand for foreign travel would explode post-CovidTue Jun 07 2022 - 05:15
Fintan O’Toole: A grotesque historical re-enactment of the second World War is in progressPutin pretends to be fighting Nazis when his troops are murdering and raping UkrainiansSat May 21 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Truss’s latest take on NI protocol reveals what is really going onStruggling Ulster farmers should be alarmed about what the Tories are really thinkingTue May 17 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Don’t avoid the united Ireland issue. Make it realA potential new state will float in Irish Dreamland in the absence of detailed plansSat May 14 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The old Northern Ireland is dead, but the new cannot be bornOnus is on Irish nationalism to do the hard thinking following the Assembly electionsTue May 10 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Putin’s reputation as a grand strategist was an illusionPutin’s previous success was a result not of his own strength, but of the West’s passivitySat May 07 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Urbanites have no right to preach to those who burn turfAtmosphere does not care if its carbon overload is from an Offaly bog or a BMW in DalkeyTue May 03 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: It’s time for democrats to use the t-word, treasonTreason has flourished because progressives have been far too prim about calling it outSat Apr 30 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Unionists should see through Tories’ latest cynical protocol gambitBoris Johnson and his acolytes will risk anything in order to protect Brexit projectTue Apr 26 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Putin’s war revives the spectre of famine across the worldFamine came to 1840s Ireland and 1930s Ukraine. Now it threatens the wider worldSat Apr 23 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The EU has a vast untapped energy resource – IrelandWe can enhance the safety of Europe by exporting clean, renewable energy to itTue Apr 19 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: The political centre cannot hold – we need a new consensusIf Macron is re-elected, it will be less because of what he is than what he is not: a crypto-fascistSat Apr 16 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Threat to democracy alive and well in WestFeral capitalism has eroded information free flow, rule of law and democratic checksTue Apr 12 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: For Putin to pay for war crimes, West has to uphold same standardsBy refusing to join International Criminal Court, US continues to undermine systemSat Apr 09 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Putin’s vicious folly is a lesson in failings of dictatorial leadershipUkraine invasion exposes myth that authoritarian regimes are more efficientTue Apr 05 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Refugee crisis cannot be treated as opportunity to show how lovely Ireland isWe are fluent in high-minded idealism, making it real is another storySat Apr 02 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ukraine puts crass Brexit into perspectiveLondon rhetoric about EU oppression trivial compared to Putin’s death and destructionTue Mar 29 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: If the West is to defeat Putin, it must rapidly dePutinise itselfWest enthusiastically enabled Russia’s mafia, but it was leading inexorably toward murderSat Mar 26 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: It is vital we do not play Putin's game of Mother Russia versus the WestIt is very hard to imagine the history of modern Irish culture without RussiaTue Mar 22 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Putin miscalculated the loyalty of his cheerleaders in the WestIn not realising that there were limits even to their stupidity, he has revealed his ownSat Mar 19 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Every reason to fear Putin’s war on Ukraine could outlive himThe nature of war has changed. It is fought now primarily against civiliansTue Mar 15 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: West needs to think carefully about endgame in UkraineShock of Al-Qaeda’s attacks on the US in 2001 led to some catastrophic responsesTue Mar 08 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Greater Russia ends up as Lesser China. Good luck with thatIn digging up Europe’s bloody past, Putin has plunged Russia back into the nightmare of historySat Mar 05 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Why is the Government stonewalling on Russian money at the IFSC?We owe it to people huddling in bomb shelters to close down the money havensTue Mar 01 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O'Toole: The cost of living in Ireland is inflated by bad politicsOrdinary families pay high price for failure to build a social democracySat Feb 26 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Putin and the oligarchs have found a home for their money in DublinWe point finger at London but Irish tax regime facilitates Putin and his oligarchsTue Feb 22 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Putin bad and Nato expansion good is not a binary we have to acceptNato’s eastward expansion broke the West’s promises and played on Russia’s fearsSat Feb 19 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: People won’t retrofit homes if they don’t trust construction firmsThe system for training much-needed construction workers has been underminedTue Feb 15 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ghost of Enoch Powell is feeding DUP’s death wishIn his impotent rage Jeffrey Donaldson seems unable to escape grim logic of PowellismSat Feb 12 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The English have two good Anglo-Saxon words for Boris JohnsonAn Anglo-Irish ruler named Aldfrith warned that arrogance leads to oblivionTue Feb 08 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Failure of people to feck off and emigrate is destabilising the status quoA hard rain is about to fall on the old political orderSat Feb 05 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: We are the most land-lubbing of island peoplesVillage People singing In the Navy would scare off the Russians more than we canTue Feb 01 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Five things we learned from the pandemicFrom fake news and racial stereotyping to wealth inequality, the pandemic has taught us a lot about what thrives in a global crisisSat Jan 29 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is no longer Catholic. Why are our schools?Political inertia in the face of sweeping social change is simply indefensibleTue Jan 25 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Bloody Sunday, the 10-minute massacre that lasted decadesFar more people died because of Bloody Sunday than those who were murdered on the daySat Jan 22 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Every woman walks around with a mental Geiger counter; no man doesPlaces that women fear are not beyond the Pale of normality; they are all around them every dayTue Jan 18 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland would not be viable without 10 big US corporationsWithout revenue from multinationals the State would face radically different choicesSat Jan 15 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is now demonstrably less politically corrupt than EnglandPandemic test of Irish political culture finds it more honest than 20 years agoTue Jan 11 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: When and why did ‘flats’ become ‘apartments’ in Ireland?When words are being manipulated, something is being obscured. In this case, it is the loss of a sense of communityTue Jan 04 2022 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: If 2022 is to be different, we need to act sooner on predictable eventsWe can change the sense of being trapped inside a familiar story by responding to what we already knowSat Jan 01 2022 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: It’s the first birthday of the Brexit hole and they have to keep diggingThose who sold it are slithering away from responsibility for its consequences. Those to whom it was sold are left to bear themTue Dec 28 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: 2021 – a year of miracles and disappointments in a new Age of ReasonTriumph of science is the big story this year, but we still struggle with the truthFri Dec 24 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: This Christmas, remember what children give to usThey deserve medals from the State for being heroes throughout the pandemicTue Dec 21 2021 - 01:00
