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Fintan O’Toole: Those who did what they were told on vaccines now feel like eejits

Fintan O’Toole: Those who did what they were told on vaccines now feel like eejits

Vaccine programme has left people in their 60s exposed to the Delta variant

Sat Jun 26 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: A real republic should not have charity delivering public welfare

Fintan O'Toole: A real republic should not have charity delivering public welfare

Maternity hospital ownership is essential to end culture of deference

Tue Jun 22 2021 - 03:00
Fintan O’Toole: Anything is possible now, we can renew Ireland

Fintan O’Toole: Anything is possible now, we can renew Ireland

The pandemic has taught us that things we once thought impossible are achievable

Sat Jun 19 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Tories' appetite for farcical fodder is insatiable

Fintan O’Toole: Tories' appetite for farcical fodder is insatiable

Reversion to old postures of English belligerence is absurd but dangerous

Tue Jun 15 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Are we too stupid to be trusted with making choices about our own regions?

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 stop

Sat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Mother and baby report cannot be left to stand

Fintan O’Toole: Mother and baby report cannot be left to stand

Flawed process deprives survivors of their stories and compounds injustice to them

Tue Jun 08 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Most notable thing about Johnson’s Catholicism is how much it doesn’t matter

Fintan O’Toole: Most notable thing about Johnson’s Catholicism is how much it doesn’t matter

If only the institution had been as flexible for Henry VIII as it is for Boris Johnson

Sat Jun 05 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Democracies learn from mistakes. We need an honest inquiry into the pandemic

Fintan O’Toole: Democracies learn from mistakes. We need an honest inquiry into the pandemic

We need to look honestly at the mistakes and report quickly on the lessons to be drawn

Tue Jun 01 2021 - 02:00
Fintan O’Toole: No one is safe when half of us are digitally illiterate

Fintan O’Toole: No one is safe when half of us are digitally illiterate

The lack of basic online skills in our population is now both a marker and a driver of social inequality

Sat May 29 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Bamboozled Britain dishes out Brexit blame

Fintan O’Toole: Bamboozled Britain dishes out Brexit blame

London strategises gormlessness to avoid taking responsibility for its actions

Tue May 25 2021 - 09:33
Fintan O’Toole: Why we didn’t think the cyber criminals were coming for us

Fintan O’Toole: Why we didn’t think the cyber criminals were coming for us

It’s time for a government department devoted to counteracting inevitable threats

Sat May 22 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit and Ireland’s sleepy response to Indian Covid variant are linked

Fintan O’Toole: Brexit and Ireland’s sleepy response to Indian Covid variant are linked

Ireland blindly followed Boris Johnson but failed to notice the game he was playing

Tue May 18 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Justice is not available for victims of the Troubles

Fintan O’Toole: Justice is not available for victims of the Troubles

It is cruel and dishonest to pretend unsolved crimes will ever see justice in court

Sat May 15 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: For newspaper columnists, anonymity is a betrayal

Fintan O'Toole: For newspaper columnists, anonymity is a betrayal

Putting you name to your work is the most basic form of accountability

Tue May 11 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: We cannot have proper sex education while Catholic Church controls schools

Fintan O’Toole: We cannot have proper sex education while Catholic Church controls schools

Government pretending it can create national curriculum that respects LGBTI+ sexuality

Sat May 08 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Earth calling Edwin Poots – we have a problem

Fintan O’Toole: Earth calling Edwin Poots – we have a problem

If the earth is only 6000 years old, all the science of the last 200 years is bogus

Tue May 04 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Partition squeezed out pluralism. We have to let it back in

Fintan O’Toole: Partition squeezed out pluralism. We have to let it back in

The events of a century ago led to the creation of two sectarian states

Sat May 01 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Boris Johnson’s gibberish may be surreal but it's also dangerous

Fintan O’Toole: Boris Johnson’s gibberish may be surreal but it's also dangerous

When the British prime minister can’t be bothered to lie, he lapses into nonsense

Tue Apr 27 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s brilliant education system is a complete fluke

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s brilliant education system is a complete fluke

Education is our greatest asset, yet we produce it in an utterly haphazard way

Sat Apr 24 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ignorance is bliss when it comes to comments on social media

Fintan O’Toole: Ignorance is bliss when it comes to comments on social media

Learning to block out anonymous bitterness is a mental health imperative

Tue Apr 20 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: The DUP created this mess but now it belongs to all of us

Fintan O’Toole: The DUP created this mess but now it belongs to all of us

Unionism in disarray is dangerous, and tribalised glee at its plight is idiotic

Sat Apr 17 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Prince Philip - asylum-seeker and citizen of nowhere, but rich and white

Fintan O’Toole: Prince Philip - asylum-seeker and citizen of nowhere, but rich and white

A ‘rootless cosmopolitan’ can be the essence of Britishness when it suits the story

Tue Apr 13 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: I got a mortgage at 24 – unthinkable for today’s young adults

Fintan O’Toole: I got a mortgage at 24 – unthinkable for today’s young adults

The great stabilisers of conservative Ireland – priests and property – are gone

Sat Apr 10 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Why we should welcome the new tribe of Anglo-Irish people

Fintan O’Toole: Why we should welcome the new tribe of Anglo-Irish people

Up to half a million British people are becoming Irish citizens. They help us to recognise our own past

Tue Apr 06 2021 - 04:00
Fintan O’Toole: Why does the West not have the humility to learn from Asia's Covid success?

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 lives

Sat Apr 03 2021 - 06:00
John le Carré ‘died an Irishman’ after gaining citizenship, son says

John le Carré ‘died an Irishman’ after gaining citizenship, son says

One 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 system

Fintan O'Toole: Skipping the vaccine queue isn't a breach of the health system, it's the system

Beacon incident reflects how money, not need, is how we allocate access to healthcare

Tue Mar 30 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: The pandemic has crowded out all other anxieties

Fintan O’Toole: The pandemic has crowded out all other anxieties

Sign of the Times survey shows Covid-19’s profound influence on our lives and minds

Sat Mar 27 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Somebody McSomebody is spreading Covid in Ireland

Fintan O’Toole: Somebody McSomebody is spreading Covid in Ireland

We have chosen not to properly track the virus. The result is endless lockdown

Tue Mar 23 2021 - 01:05
Fintan O’Toole: Men need to be scandalised, appalled and outraged by misogynistic violence

Fintan O’Toole: Men need to be scandalised, appalled and outraged by misogynistic violence

Far more attention paid to gangland violence but domestic murders more common

Tue Mar 16 2021 - 02:00
Fintan O’Toole: Deception by the Davy 16 was based on pure greed

Fintan O’Toole: Deception by the Davy 16 was based on pure greed

They stuck in the knife of greed and arrogance when our wounds were raw

Tue Mar 09 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: The Covid-19 pandemic should be the last hurrah for Irish stoicism

Fintan O’Toole: The Covid-19 pandemic should be the last hurrah for Irish stoicism

We are at the top of Mount Misery and must endure, but forbearance is not always a virtue

Sat Mar 06 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: anti-lockdown sentiment given undeserved credibility by political failings

Fintan O’Toole: anti-lockdown sentiment given undeserved credibility by political failings

The 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 it

Fintan O’Toole: We had zero Covid and we blew it

Government’s dogged denial of danger posed by international travel remains bewildering

Sat Feb 27 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: We are a nation of historical vandals

Fintan O’Toole: We are a nation of historical vandals

Ireland fails to preserve the records that constitute public memory

Tue Feb 23 2021 - 02:00
Michael D Higgins: Things ‘could go either way’ after the pandemic

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'Toole

Sat Feb 20 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit walked all over North's delicate construct of ambiguity

Fintan O’Toole: Brexit walked all over North's delicate construct of ambiguity

Instead of using North for proxy wars, Britain and EU need to get back to living with ambiguity

Tue Feb 16 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Biden can make America great again only by making it green

Fintan O’Toole: Biden can make America great again only by making it green

Donald Trump boasted of not having started a war. But he did: a war on nature

Sat Feb 13 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Why no laptops for schoolchildren?

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 learning

Tue Feb 09 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Science and stupidity are thriving. Don’t forget common sense

Fintan O’Toole: Science and stupidity are thriving. Don’t forget common sense

In the fight against Covid, the wisdom of the crowd has been proven right

Sat Feb 06 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Let’s end the stand-up tragedy of Ireland’s pandemic policy

Fintan O’Toole: Let’s end the stand-up tragedy of Ireland’s pandemic policy

There’s a script for what works, so Ireland should stop improvising

Tue Feb 02 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Dublin city – facing its third great abandonment – must be reimagined

Fintan O’Toole: Dublin city – facing its third great abandonment – must be reimagined

Dublin’s inner city could soon become a ghost town – or reoccupied as a living public space

Sat Jan 30 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: The State has never got its head around the pandemic

Fintan O'Toole: The State has never got its head around the pandemic

Openness is so fundamental to us that we have failed to shut off the island from danger

Tue Jan 26 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole analyses Biden’s ‘balancing act’ speech line by line

Fintan O’Toole analyses Biden’s ‘balancing act’ speech line by line

It’s no Gettysburg Address, but the inaugural speech walked the line between honesty and optimism

Sat Jan 23 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Spiritual terrorism created world of mother and baby homes

Fintan O’Toole: Spiritual terrorism created world of mother and baby homes

There was no ‘society’ separate from the church’s power to inflict damnation

Tue Jan 19 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Nicola Sturgeon’s staunch ally in her push for independence – Boris Johnson

Fintan O’Toole: Nicola Sturgeon’s staunch ally in her push for independence – Boris Johnson

Brexit could help Scotland’s first minister over some of the obstacles to independence

Sat Jan 16 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Assault on US Capitol showed Trump where his market is

Fintan O’Toole: Assault on US Capitol showed Trump where his market is

If Trump is not impeached and prosecuted for subversion he still has good chance of winning

Tue Jan 12 2021 - 01:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland's extraordinary culture of mutual trust still exists amid pandemic

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland's extraordinary culture of mutual trust still exists amid pandemic

The State has issued a vast IOU drawn on the bank of public trust

Sat Jan 09 2021 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s insurrection has been advertised for months

Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s insurrection has been advertised for months

This was not a rush of blood to the head. It is the logic of a post-democratic Republican Party

Thu Jan 07 2021 - 10:02
Fintan O’Toole: If we must endure, please hit Covid on the head

Fintan O’Toole: If we must endure, please hit Covid on the head

Public losing faith in empty promises that pain will be matched by gain

Tue Jan 05 2021 - 09:01
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