Fintan O'Toole

Accusing our EU allies of being proto-fascist warmongers is not a winning strategy

Former US president tells a capacity crowd at 3Arena that both sides are in a ‘prison of the past’

One term encapsulates the way Israel and its enablers are dealing with the genocide in Gaza: instant amnesia

Imagine the war cabinet that would have been assembled if paediatric spinal surgery was a global spectator sport

There are still a lot of orthodox Irish Catholics and people of other faiths who share their views on issues like abortion, homosexuality, gender and marriage

Or so they said. But surrendering to oppression can be a form of contentment

Does Fianna Fáil really want to nominate him for the Áras and deliver us a sharp reminder of what that felt like?

Radio: The phone-in canvasses so many people that it might just qualify as a poll of voting intention for the entire country

Take a look at centuries of Irish revolutionaries and you’ll find links to Norman history

If we were serious about stopping people coming here to work in low-paid jobs, we would have to be willing to do three things

When we learn to shut down pity, we summon the pitiless to power

Galway’s Druid theatre company had a superb, stubborn belief that a basket case of a nation could also be a Moses basket

State coffers beefed up by huge corporation tax takes, but Government knows it can’t rely on money tree to live forever

July 19th-25th: including Mrs Robinson, Karen Pirie and Baz Luhrmann’s Faraway Downs

The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense

Outrage at the collective torture of Gaza is linked to our historical opposition to oppression

Artificial intelligence has trouble distinguishing fact from fiction, so it has to spew out absurd ‘factoids’ instead

Israel successfully created a reality distortion field in which the possible (Iran might get nuclear weapons) obscures the actual (Israel already has them)

The range of departments engaged in this alarming disappearing act suggests it is not accidental

The stark fact is that there are students sitting Junior and Leaving Cert exams today who went to bed hungry last night

Ireland event guide for the week June 7th–13th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way

Right from the start of his assault on the population of Gaza, this has been Netanyahu’s mantra

One hopes there is more commonsense to go around

Ten years on, an angry tribe sees itself as more English than British - and Ireland must stay alert to the dangers

If a rich and famous institution such as Columbia doesn’t stand up for itself, what chance have millions of ordinary people?

Women priests: The Catholic Church is like a farmer complaining of a poor crop while ploughing only one depleted field and leaving the rest fallow

Kneecap have every right to make political interventions but they have to recognise they are not mere performance. The fun of “putting it out there” stops when what is out there is violence

We are at a very strange moment in our cultural evolution – one that threatens the very possibility of spiritual experience

Fintan O’Toole: This 30-year debacle should finally bring home to us the reality that official accountability does not exist

When they bought into Trump, the tech bros purchased his whole inflated persona – every whim, craze and dark fantasy

The most effective pushback against Donald Trump right now is a plunging financial graph

There is nothing natural about male violence. Boys are growing up in a profoundly troubled culture

We are the Artful Dodgers of the globalised world, experts at ducking and diving - but even the Dodger gets caught in the end

Being honest about this helps to clarify where Ireland’s real interests lie

Presenter of the Tonight Show on Virgin Media and Hard Shoulder on Newstalk on Denis O’Brien, work-life balance and embarrassing career low-lights

How should Micheál Martin deal with Donald Trump when he meets him in the White House?

They had fooled themselves into believing what they wanted to believe

Fintan O’Toole: Trump is complaining that we pick America’s pocket. Fair enough – we should instead pick America’s brains

The distress, like the devil, is in the details. And yet we owe it to those witnesses to let these details pass through the filters we use to keep the unbearable at bay

The essential question for Ireland is: to grovel or not to grovel?