Fintan O’Toole: Those who did what they were told on vaccines now feel like eejitsVaccine programme has left people in their 60s exposed to the Delta variantSat Jun 26 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: A real republic should not have charity delivering public welfareMaternity hospital ownership is essential to end culture of deferenceTue Jun 22 2021 - 03:00
Fintan O’Toole: Anything is possible now, we can renew IrelandThe pandemic has taught us that things we once thought impossible are achievableSat Jun 19 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Tories' appetite for farcical fodder is insatiableReversion to old postures of English belligerence is absurd but dangerousTue Jun 15 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Are we too stupid to be trusted with making choices about our own regions?The lack of spending power at local level is an absence of power, full stopSat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Mother and baby report cannot be left to standFlawed process deprives survivors of their stories and compounds injustice to themTue Jun 08 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Most notable thing about Johnson’s Catholicism is how much it doesn’t matterIf only the institution had been as flexible for Henry VIII as it is for Boris JohnsonSat Jun 05 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Democracies learn from mistakes. We need an honest inquiry into the pandemicWe need to look honestly at the mistakes and report quickly on the lessons to be drawnTue Jun 01 2021 - 02:00
Fintan O’Toole: No one is safe when half of us are digitally illiterateThe lack of basic online skills in our population is now both a marker and a driver of social inequalitySat May 29 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Bamboozled Britain dishes out Brexit blameLondon strategises gormlessness to avoid taking responsibility for its actionsTue May 25 2021 - 09:33
Fintan O’Toole: Why we didn’t think the cyber criminals were coming for usIt’s time for a government department devoted to counteracting inevitable threatsSat May 22 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit and Ireland’s sleepy response to Indian Covid variant are linkedIreland blindly followed Boris Johnson but failed to notice the game he was playingTue May 18 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Justice is not available for victims of the TroublesIt is cruel and dishonest to pretend unsolved crimes will ever see justice in courtSat May 15 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: For newspaper columnists, anonymity is a betrayalPutting you name to your work is the most basic form of accountabilityTue May 11 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: We cannot have proper sex education while Catholic Church controls schoolsGovernment pretending it can create national curriculum that respects LGBTI+ sexualitySat May 08 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Earth calling Edwin Poots – we have a problemIf the earth is only 6000 years old, all the science of the last 200 years is bogusTue May 04 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Partition squeezed out pluralism. We have to let it back inThe events of a century ago led to the creation of two sectarian statesSat May 01 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Boris Johnson’s gibberish may be surreal but it's also dangerousWhen the British prime minister can’t be bothered to lie, he lapses into nonsenseTue Apr 27 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s brilliant education system is a complete flukeEducation is our greatest asset, yet we produce it in an utterly haphazard waySat Apr 24 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ignorance is bliss when it comes to comments on social mediaLearning to block out anonymous bitterness is a mental health imperativeTue Apr 20 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: The DUP created this mess but now it belongs to all of usUnionism in disarray is dangerous, and tribalised glee at its plight is idioticSat Apr 17 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Prince Philip - asylum-seeker and citizen of nowhere, but rich and whiteA ‘rootless cosmopolitan’ can be the essence of Britishness when it suits the storyTue Apr 13 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: I got a mortgage at 24 – unthinkable for today’s young adultsThe great stabilisers of conservative Ireland – priests and property – are goneSat Apr 10 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Why we should welcome the new tribe of Anglo-Irish peopleUp to half a million British people are becoming Irish citizens. They help us to recognise our own pastTue Apr 06 2021 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: Why does the West not have the humility to learn from Asia's Covid success?Racism has blinded us from learning how Asian countries save their citizen's livesSat Apr 03 2021 - 06:00
John le Carré ‘died an Irishman’ after gaining citizenship, son saysOne of the last photographs of author ‘is him sitting wrapped in an Irish flag’Thu Apr 01 2021 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Skipping the vaccine queue isn't a breach of the health system, it's the systemBeacon incident reflects how money, not need, is how we allocate access to healthcareTue Mar 30 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: The pandemic has crowded out all other anxietiesSign of the Times survey shows Covid-19’s profound influence on our lives and mindsSat Mar 27 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Somebody McSomebody is spreading Covid in IrelandWe have chosen not to properly track the virus. The result is endless lockdownTue Mar 23 2021 - 01:05
Fintan O’Toole: Men need to be scandalised, appalled and outraged by misogynistic violenceFar more attention paid to gangland violence but domestic murders more commonTue Mar 16 2021 - 02:00
Fintan O’Toole: Deception by the Davy 16 was based on pure greedThey stuck in the knife of greed and arrogance when our wounds were rawTue Mar 09 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Covid-19 pandemic should be the last hurrah for Irish stoicismWe are at the top of Mount Misery and must endure, but forbearance is not always a virtueSat Mar 06 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: anti-lockdown sentiment given undeserved credibility by political failingsThe State is not imposing a tyranny but, if it were, would the Dáil really notice?Tue Mar 02 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: We had zero Covid and we blew itGovernment’s dogged denial of danger posed by international travel remains bewilderingSat Feb 27 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: We are a nation of historical vandalsIreland fails to preserve the records that constitute public memoryTue Feb 23 2021 - 02:00
Michael D Higgins: Things ‘could go either way’ after the pandemic'It would be disastrous to recreate the conditions that preceded this,' he tells Fintan O'TooleSat Feb 20 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit walked all over North's delicate construct of ambiguityInstead of using North for proxy wars, Britain and EU need to get back to living with ambiguityTue Feb 16 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Biden can make America great again only by making it greenDonald Trump boasted of not having started a war. But he did: a war on natureSat Feb 13 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Why no laptops for schoolchildren?If a government moves classes online, it is its duty to ensure every student can access digital learningTue Feb 09 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Science and stupidity are thriving. Don’t forget common senseIn the fight against Covid, the wisdom of the crowd has been proven rightSat Feb 06 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Let’s end the stand-up tragedy of Ireland’s pandemic policyThere’s a script for what works, so Ireland should stop improvisingTue Feb 02 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Dublin city – facing its third great abandonment – must be reimaginedDublin’s inner city could soon become a ghost town – or reoccupied as a living public spaceSat Jan 30 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: The State has never got its head around the pandemicOpenness is so fundamental to us that we have failed to shut off the island from dangerTue Jan 26 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole analyses Biden’s ‘balancing act’ speech line by lineIt’s no Gettysburg Address, but the inaugural speech walked the line between honesty and optimismSat Jan 23 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Spiritual terrorism created world of mother and baby homesThere was no ‘society’ separate from the church’s power to inflict damnationTue Jan 19 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Nicola Sturgeon’s staunch ally in her push for independence – Boris JohnsonBrexit could help Scotland’s first minister over some of the obstacles to independenceSat Jan 16 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Assault on US Capitol showed Trump where his market isIf Trump is not impeached and prosecuted for subversion he still has good chance of winningTue Jan 12 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland's extraordinary culture of mutual trust still exists amid pandemicThe State has issued a vast IOU drawn on the bank of public trustSat Jan 09 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s insurrection has been advertised for monthsThis was not a rush of blood to the head. It is the logic of a post-democratic Republican PartyThu Jan 07 2021 - 10:02
Fintan O’Toole: If we must endure, please hit Covid on the headPublic losing faith in empty promises that pain will be matched by gainTue Jan 05 2021 - 09:01
