Fintan O’Toole: Absence of Covid defences at Dublin Airport is startlingLack of testing and adequate tracing stand in stark contrast to situation in CopenhagenTue Sept 01 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Golfgate’s sleepwalkers aren’t stupid. They have a different problemWhat is truly beyond comprehension is that they did not even think politicallySat Aug 29 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Oireachtas golf event broke webs of mutuality that bind Irish societyWe must not allow controversy destroy social capital that has kept us goingTue Aug 25 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Turning a blind eye to meat plants a very old habitThe obvious threat of meat plants becoming vectors of Covid-19 infection was not met with robust actionTue Aug 11 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Supreme Court calls time on government waffleIn throwing out State’s Climate Mitigation Plan, judges have done a real service to Irish democracyTue Aug 04 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: To keep schools open, the Government needs to start learning quicklyWhy are problems entirely predictable in April only being addressed now?Sat Aug 01 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit is like having to listen to someone else’s dreamsThe epic story of liberation has become mesmerisingly tediousTue Jul 28 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Newstalk’s Irish Times ban is a classic case of ‘cancel culture’Cancel culture isn’t new, just a new term for an old concept of cynical hypocrisySat Jul 25 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Lack of preparation for reopening schools is terrifyingWith just five weeks to go, the Department of Education has no ‘clear picture’ of what is neededTue Jul 21 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: If Brexit is so great, why is Britain acting like it’s not happening?Our neighbours are still struggling to believe that Brexit is a real-world eventSat Jul 18 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Jack Charlton allowed us to accept the English part of our IrishnessThe two countries’ hybrid urban culture was a truth universally unacknowledgedTue Jul 14 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: In the US, the 19th century is coming to a very slow endThe unfinished business of slavery, emancipation and Civil War is still playing itself outSat Jul 11 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Young Micheál Martin had courage to face dark truthsIn 1999 the then minister for education made brave choices. Does he still have it in him?Tue Jul 07 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Future of the American republic is in grave danger unless Trump is defeatedIf Donald Trump is not removed from office, Abraham Lincoln’s republic cannot endureSat Jul 04 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The new Government will be far more radical than it intends to beThe task it faces is, in its scale, something like the nation-building of a century agoTue Jun 30 2020 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Covid-19 has redefined Ireland’s relationship with BritainFor once, we didn’t follow Britain – a moment of great psychological significanceSat Jun 27 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole on Italia 90: Confessions of a teenage football weaklingFintan O’Toole on how church and State ruined his chances of becoming a midfield supremoFri Jun 26 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Greens have no choice but to enter governmentIt is the Greens’ own values that force them to take the power that is on offerTue Jun 23 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of loveFatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdownSat Jun 20 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Investigating the Troubles requires a hard-headed exchange: truth for amnestyThere will be no justice for victims and the bereaved. But we can at least have the truthTue Jun 16 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Five reasons to be cheerful about the futureCovid-19 has turned the tide against right-wing nationalism and ‘strongman’ leadersSat Jun 13 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland's anti-Traveller hate speech is the respectable group prejudiceIf how we treat Travellers is our model for ‘rooting out’ racism, the prospects look bleakTue Jun 09 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The violence of racism is deeply embedded in American societyIn 2016, white America elected a racist president. That privilege comes with a costSat Jun 06 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Coronavirus is like the Taliban – it hates artCovid-19 has destroyed live performance, we must support artists in reinventing itTue Jun 02 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: It is time for an Irish National Health ServiceThe Covid-19 pandemic has made it impossible for the old health system to continueSat May 30 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Last week's hysteria shows politicians and judges need to get a gripSensible coronavirus advice prompts wild overreaction among establishment elitesTue May 26 2020 - 12:42
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is again collateral damage in Britain’s self-harmThe attitudes behind Brexit resurface in Boris Johnson’s tragic failure of leadershipSat May 23 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Spare us the scare stories about public spendingIreland will have to borrow a lot of money. What matters is how well we spend itTue May 19 2020 - 05:00
Humankind: A Hopeful History – Busting the myth of our innate selfishnessBook review: Rutger Bregman convincingly rejects capitalist assumptions about behaviour, says Fintan O'TooleSat May 16 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: ‘Bomb the economy’ is the only climate strategy that’s worked in IrelandHow can Scotland meet climate targets while Ireland fails? One word: leadershipSat May 16 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Rupert Murdoch is a super-spreader of ignorance on coronavirusSpit at someone and you go jail. Spread deadly lies and you enjoy impunityTue May 12 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Bono at 60 – Why is Ireland so ambivalent about its most famous son?He is a truly global celebrity but we might like him more if he did not try to be so goodSat May 09 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Criticism is not unpatriotic – awkward questions save livesMistakes are inevitable in this crisis. What matters is learning from themTue May 05 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Governments need to resist corporate blackmail over bailoutsA repeat of the last crash, with ordinary people bled dry, would be catastrophicSat May 02 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Baffling Government decision to tear up crisis plan has three bad effectsGovernment adopted system for handling emergencies in 2017 but has ignored itTue Apr 28 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Donald Trump has destroyed the country he promised to make great againThe world has loved, hated and envied the US. Now, for the first time, we pity itSat Apr 25 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: FF and FG have produced a colouring book for adultsPost-coronavirus era will demand a radicalism the old parties are not trained forTue Apr 21 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Even before Covid-19, we feared an impending disasterThe new government will have to dispel the despair that lingers from the last decadeSat Apr 18 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: A preventable tragedy is unfolding in care homesIt is not too late but the Government must act now to save care workersTue Apr 14 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalismJohnson’s first response was at odds with rest of world but virus does not respect his delusions of national characterSat Apr 11 2020 - 12:45
Fintan O’Toole: After Covid-19 we will love – and detest – our devices moreTechnology has made this plague different from anything humanity has known beforeSat Apr 11 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Crisis management is what the State does bestImmense task of reconstruction will demand much more than frantic improvisationTue Apr 07 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Earth has a toxic virus – usThe coronavirus crisis reminds us we must find a way not to kill the host we inhabitSat Apr 04 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole on Tim Robinson: ‘One of the greatest writers of lands’A poetic genius who marvellously mapped the Burren, Connemara and Aran IslandsFri Apr 03 2020 - 17:12
Fintan O’Toole: We can’t help giving meaning to this absurd virusCovid-19 is cruelly capricious but human beings need to attach significance to sufferingTue Mar 31 2020 - 09:34
Fintan O’Toole: We are learning how much we rely on low-paid workersThe coronavirus pandemic exposes that those who keep us alive are deeply undervaluedSat Mar 28 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: We must not allow coronavirus pandemic to rob us of griefThere is no such thing as mass death – people die one by one and each is uniqueTue Mar 24 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Coronavirus has made all familiar things strangeIt should not take something as terrible as this to awake us to life’s inherent fragilitySat Mar 21 2020 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Coronavirus has ended the era of political riskWho needs a politics of disruption when Covid-19 is disrupting the world?Tue Mar 17 2020 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: ‘The withering god of fever swoops on us’Artists have always sought to find meaning in pandemics, plagues and mass infectionsSat Mar 14 2020 - 05:00
