Fintan O'Toole
Irish Times
Dublin, D, Ireland
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Fintan O’Toole: You have to be middle-aged before you can become middle-class in Ireland
By my mid-20s I owned a home, had a third-level education and a white-collar job. It’s very different for that age group today → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: What unionists should really be fretting about is their love for Britain is increasingly unrequited
Opinion: There will be no Westminster revolt over the Windsor Framework → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: DUP must confront the truth that its own actions detached North from British mothership
The Northern Ireland Protocol row has been a reality distortion field – it has made realities seem illusory and illusions seem real → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: The West is pursuing different agendas in Ukraine
Supporting Ukraine is costing the US a mere 5.6% of its annual military budget. In return, it gets to degrade Russia’s military capacity by 50% – so far → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: Why it is so good to have Bertie back about the place
As a living relic of old indecency. Bertie Ahern is a valuable reminder of how things used to be in Ireland → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: At every stage of this extraordinary saga, the State knew it was acting unlawfully
Attorney General’s report on nursing home charges masks basic question of how a democracy should respond to violation of constitutional order in layers of evasion → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: Well-off Irish people do the most climate damage and must pay the price
Costs of carbon reduction should not be ‘shared’ equally but must be borne mainly by the rich → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: State has a habit of paying up to the strong and harassing the weak
Department of Health did not challenge those who refused to pay nursing home fees. It hammered only those who were too poor to hire a lawyer → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: The ‘great national drama’ of Brexit has lapsed into sullen silence
The poorest people in Ireland now have a standard of living 63% higher than their counterparts in Britain → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: Enoch Burke is no freak. His extreme logic was part of Irish education for years
This country has often allowed the rights of those who believe they are acting in God’s name to trump those of students → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: Irish ‘moral hazard’ means being bailed out by the State if you build a slum
Edifice of private responsibility has been demolished, replaced with a facade of public liability still costing the Government billions → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s dysfunctional health service crushes idealism and rewards cynicism
Why is the culture so resistant to positive change? Three historical reasons suggest themselves → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: We have taken flight from deep link with birds
Birds animate our physical world but so many species in Ireland are rapidly winging it towards extinction → Read More
Dress Rehearsal
To understand the attempted coup that culminated in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, it is useful to go back to Donald Trump’s immediate → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: Half a century on we can see the benefits of Ireland joining Europe’s top table
State joined the EEC immediately after the bloodiest year in the history of the Troubles → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: I don’t miss the Ireland that required us to marry in secret
Ireland’s present is not perfect but its past was grim, one of hypocrisy and economic failure → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: We are living with the possibility of no future, of civilisation coming towards its end
‘2022 was a year when the post-lockdown dawn turned out to be the morning after the night before’ → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: Musk’s tantrum capitalism explodes myth of buccaneering libertarianism
Rampant egomania is not creation. It is not even, in the jargon of neoliberalism, creative destruction. It is merely destruction → Read More
In a country sensitised to child abuse, we seem oddly reluctant to accept official neglect is also abusive
In a country sensitised to child abuse, we seem oddly reluctant to accept that official neglect is also abusive → Read More
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s Act of Contrition otherwise known as austerity
After the great Irish banking and property crash of 2008, the sinners got three Hail Marys but the innocent had to stay on their knees for five years → Read More