Fintan O’Toole: It is time for a children’s budgetNo Child 2020: Nothing could be more financially prudent than eliminating child povertySat Sept 07 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Welcome to the United Kingdom of AbsurdistanBritain’s democracy is built on feudalism and its unwritten constitution is feebleTue Sept 03 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is not ready for unity but may have to take that stepRegime change may be forced on us but we must handle it with skill and generosityTue Aug 20 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Botched departure from EU should not lead to botched exit from UKIf a united Ireland is on the horizon a decent departure from the UK must be plannedTue Aug 13 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: We must defend our right to share the islandThe unthinkable 20 years ago is becoming ordinary. Our fragile reality must not be destroyedSat Aug 10 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Sinn Féin joins the Great DisruptionThree political groups waiting for a no-deal Brexit, each with an odd vision of aftermathWed Aug 07 2019 - 11:41
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland can stop a no-deal Brexit. Here’s howA bold move by Sinn Féin can transform the dynamics of power at WestminsterFri Aug 02 2019 - 15:00
Fintan O’Toole: Let’s abolish culture and call it sportThe day the Ryder Cup was funded by Government, plans for Parnell Square's cultural quarter collapsedTue Jul 30 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Johnson must confront tyranny of factThe PM doesn’t do detail, but the details of Brexit are people's livesSat Jul 27 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Britain’s fate may rest on Boris Johnson’s ability to polish pooWho better than the next British PM to sell a withdrawal agreement tweak as a win?Tue Jul 23 2019 - 14:38
Fintan O’Toole: Eoin Morgan showed England its better selfThe Irish captain of England's triumphant cricket team knocked xenophobia for sixSat Jul 20 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The 2004 referendum on citizenship was a disgrace to Irish democracyAmendment on citizenship shabbily undermines key provision of 1998 dealTue Jul 16 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: They went to the moon; we discovered the EarthWhat moved me as a child in 1969 wasn’t the moon landing but the dramatic splashdownSat Jul 13 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: A spiffing tale of how Brexit was ‘spaffed’ awayChris Cook’s book paints UK swing to political and administrative incompetenceTue Jul 09 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Too many claims about Irish beef are pure bullIf the Irish beef industry is to fight off competition from Brazil, it has to be more credible in its claims to the moral high groundSat Jul 06 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: The Tory lunatic fringe of 2016 is now at the centreBrexit is, in its own mad way, a version of that great British tradition, heroic failureTue Jul 02 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: ‘Rural Ireland’ has been romanticised up to its neckPiety about rural values never did anything to stop the receding tide of depopulationSat Jun 29 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: There is a gulf between Ireland and England when it comes to EuropeWhy England and Ireland take vastly different approaches to the ContinentTue Jun 25 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Our perjury laws have failed for cultural – not legal – reasonsTough new perjury laws contrast starkly with years of impunity for senior public figuresSat Jun 22 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Boris Johnson is the fool who would play the kingJohnson gets away with unabashed lying because he shifts between joker and politicianTue Jun 18 2019 - 05:00
Was it for this? Fintan O’Toole on the existential questions facing the Abbey TheatreIf the national theatre is not world class or keen on Ireland’s dramatic canon, what is it for?Sat Jun 15 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Gove's cocaine use may explain his attack on the peace processThe coked-up rant in Michael Gove’s Belfast Agreement pamphlet makes more sense nowTue Jun 11 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Donald Trump is a hostile, malign presence in EuropeDiplomatic niceties should not blind us to the US president’s aggressive designsSat Jun 08 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Irish blood, English heart – and white skin?Morrissey was once an Anglo-Irish critic of Britishness, but he is now a far-right iconTue Jun 04 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Maria Bailey and the snapping of the Irish hard neckThe Irish neck is both very soft and as leathery as an equestrian’s undercarriageSat Jun 01 2019 - 14:05
Fintan O’Toole: Election results show angry energy of protest is exhaustedOld political order is in doldrums but disruptive challenge to it is all over placeTue May 28 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: It’s a united Ireland, but not as we know itStar Trek predicted Irish unification in 2024. It’s not inconceivable the series was rightSat May 25 2019 - 11:41
Fintan O’Toole: We must vote for survival of our species on FridayOur MEPs have a dire record on climate change. We must put it at top of EU agendaTue May 21 2019 - 11:34
Fintan O’Toole: Who can beat Trump? Not Joe BidenDemocrats have to excite the small but decisive group who voted for both Trump and ObamaSat May 18 2019 - 11:47
Fintan O’Toole: KPMG hoovers up fees as politicians forget everythingBroadband plan designed by same firm, KPMG, that failed to raise alarm about banksTue May 14 2019 - 08:03
Fintan O’Toole: Everything about Israel is political, even EurovisionIsrael has used the song contest to present itself as a normal European societySat May 11 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: History of Ireland and England deserves better than egregious nonsenseIrish history appears to be a mystery to much of Britain’s intellectual eliteTue May 07 2019 - 09:26
Fintan O’Toole: I am a cis man with cis privilegeTransgender rights are human rights. They don’t require a hierarchy of victimhoodSat May 04 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Gangsters who call themselves the New IRA are calcified clichéSinn Féin no longer accepts the legitimacy of crypto-fascist ‘republicanism’, but it won’t disavow it eitherTue Apr 30 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: In today’s Ireland, happiness is a tough gigThe 2019 Sign of the Times survey shows an Ireland more anxious and divided than it seemsSat Apr 27 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Enough shame about the past. What we need is guiltShame at the abuse of children in Irish institutions has achieved nothingTue Apr 23 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: We must all learn the art of political dentistryFascism has no safe dose – it is in ordinary conversations that toxic ideas are checkedSat Apr 20 2019 - 06:00
The Scar: An intimate insider account of recovery from mental illnessMary Cregan’s personal history is gripping, but she also interrogates her depressionSat Apr 20 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Irish political system is destroying the middle-class lifestyle it depends onPolitical middle-ground depends on middle-class way of life that is ever further out of reachTue Apr 16 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s test-marketing of barbarism entering new phaseLast year’s trial run for fascism was a success. Now the policy is being refinedSat Apr 13 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: English self-mockery has gone beyond a jokeThe distance between the gloriously bonkers opening ceremony of the London Olympics and the sourness of Brexit is not as great as it seemsTue Apr 09 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Flann O’Brien guide to understanding BrexitO’Brien’s The Third Policeman – with its unending, hellish plot – is the Brexit CodeSat Apr 06 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit makes the Irish State look better than it isWhy do politicians seem so competent on international stage, and so incompetent at home?Tue Apr 02 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Game of Thrones is an epic for our timesSpectacular TV fantasy dramatises climate change, globalisation and political disorderSat Mar 30 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Four reasons Mueller’s report is bad news for TrumpSpecial counsel’s findings look great for the US president, until you consider the long-termSat Mar 30 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Demand for Britishness is high but the supply is drying upWhen even The Spectator is playing Give Ireland Back to the Irish, how can people in Northern Ireland hold on to a British identity?Tue Mar 26 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Rise of Germany the great unintended consequence of BrexitThe British are creating in reality the thing they feared in their paranoid fantasiesSat Mar 23 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Are the English ready for self-government?Westminster chaos affords preview of Britain standing alone with its demonsTue Mar 19 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Don’t even feel a bit sorry for Theresa MayThe British PM’s dullness hides a monomaniacal obsession with staying in powerSat Mar 16 2019 - 05:45
Fintan O’Toole: Green and orange will equally make Brexitopians see redIrish identities converge accidentally to render Britain a big serviceTue Mar 12 2019 - 05:00
