Fintan O’Toole: British can’t deliver promises of frictionless tradeRecent history shows the UK cannot deliver a smooth and invisible borderTue Mar 06 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Unionism traps itself in a 1950s sci-fi B-movieMomentous EU text on the Border has left the DUP and the Tories praying for a miracleSat Mar 03 2018 - 08:37
Fintan O’Toole: Brexiteers are Britain’s biggest MarxistsTory hardliners are driven by a bizarre and contradictory economic determinismTue Feb 27 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Belfast Agreement is flawed, but not in the way Brexiteers thinkBrexit’s true believers have just realised the treaty makes the hard Brexit they desire virtually impossibleSat Feb 24 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: 15 steps to help England climb down over BrexitFrom penalty shoot-outs and the Falklands to Rory McIlroy and bendy bananasTue Feb 20 2018 - 05:00
The Theatre of Tom Murphy by Nicholas Grene review: An impressive overviewScholars and critics will use this fine book as the diving board from which to plunge into the fascinating depths of the great Irish playwrightSat Feb 17 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: No integration please, we’re IrishTen years ago, integration was an imperative. Then the our Republic did nothingSat Feb 17 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Hope for woefully neglected cultural infrastructurePlan isn’t visionary but €725m might rescue some national institutions from years of neglectSat Feb 17 2018 - 01:23
Fintan O'Toole: Plans for culture may see hope triumph over experienceNational Development Plan: €75m a year will go a long towards making the main national cultural establishments fit for purposeFri Feb 16 2018 - 18:20
Fintan O'Toole: Irexit would be the end of Irish nationalismA campaign to get Ireland to follow Britain out of the EU is doomed to failTue Feb 13 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Coveney would take us back to era of lying womenHaving to make rape claim to access abortion services recipe for deceit and hypocrisyTue Feb 06 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Is Brexit the maddest thing England has ever done? Not quiteEven the worst Brexit will be nothing like the catastrophe of the Hundred Years WarSat Feb 03 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: For working-class commuters it’s a long and winding roadBehind the College Green bus ban is old-fashioned class discriminationTue Jan 30 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Questioning Nóirín O’Sullivan is like playing handball against a haystackEx-Garda chief shed no light on strategy of impugning McCabe’s motives at tribunalSat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00
Rise Above! Letters from Tyrone Guthrie review: an admirable collectionFintan O’Toole on Christopher Fitz-Simon’s edition of the great theatre director’s delightfully lively lettersSat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Child with Down syndrome will be face of anti-abortion campaignThose who favour Eighth Amendment repeal will have to show why it will not lead to ‘screening out’ of people with disabilitiesTue Jan 23 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s inaugural speech was phony and honestAs Donald Trump was sworn in a year ago, few believed he’d be as bad as they fearedSat Jan 20 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: A Baptism barrier would solve our hospital crisisThe A&E crisis could easily be solved in Catholic hospitals by turning away infidelsTue Jan 16 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The A&E crisis is perfectly acceptableThe HSE’s grotesque winter festival has become as regular as ChristmasSat Jan 13 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump and Brexit are products of Sutherland’s successAs a father of globalisation Peter Sutherland leaves a problematic legacyTue Jan 09 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Has Ireland had a lost decade?The Crash – 10 years on: Is Ireland a wiser and better-governed place than it was in the years of folly and frolic?Sat Jan 06 2018 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Brexit was only supposed to blow the bloody doors offThe last moments of ‘The Italian Job’ are a perfect metaphor for the UK in 2018Tue Jan 02 2018 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: The marching, charging feet of 1968Fifty years ago the world was on the brink of revolution. Then the right struck backSat Dec 30 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole on 2017: The year weird became the new normalNothing will be quite the same after Trump, Weinstein and BrexitSat Dec 23 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Ireland's abortion regime is too cruel even for TrumpEighth Amendment law about locking up women and doctors really is step too farTue Dec 19 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: UK voted for Brexit because citizens feel their country is ‘broken’. It can be fixedDecades of demonisation made the EU a natural fit in the search for an 'oppressor' to revolt againstSat Dec 16 2017 - 06:00
Bittersweet insights into Van Morrison’s BelfastIn Another World is a lovely and lively exploration of Morrison’s music and its impact on the poet Gerald DaweSat Dec 16 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Crumlin children do not need Conor McGregor’s gangsta fantasiesCrumlin shook off the negative stereotypes of my youth, but he is bringing them backTue Dec 12 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: In humiliating May, DUP killed the thing it lovesThe DUP’s brinkmanship and manoeuvring have exposed Britain’s powerlessnessSat Dec 09 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland has just saved the UK from the madness of a hard BrexitIf the UK mirrors customs union, why bother leaving EU in the first place?Fri Dec 08 2017 - 10:50
Fintan O’Toole: Hard Brexiteers have just discovered Britain is weaker than IrelandDrama of Border talks shows how well EU protects members. Is there a lesson there?Tue Dec 05 2017 - 08:43
Fintan O’Toole: The only thanks for whistleblowers is abusePolitical damage of McCabe saga rooted in instinct to punish troublemakersTue Dec 05 2017 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Five ways to purge politics of ‘dysfunction’It is not just the Department of Justice that is ‘dysfunctional’. It is Irish democracySat Dec 02 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole on Jonathan Swift: a moral giant and founder of Anglo-Irish writing350 years after his birth, Swift’s savage indignation can still reach right into our heartsThu Nov 30 2017 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Did the Department of Justice engage in a deliberate act of subversion?‘We have to assume withholding of the emails from Charleton was deliberate’Tue Nov 28 2017 - 13:40
Fintan O'Toole: This is wrong time for a political circusOur politicians are indulging in high-wire acts when they should be playing pokerTue Nov 28 2017 - 05:00
The hard-won kinship between Britain and Ireland is threatened by Brexit idiocyAn alliance decades in the making is threatened by an utter lack of progress over the post-separation borderMon Nov 27 2017 - 09:26
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
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
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
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
