2 h. ago Fintan O'Toole: Eurovision glitz part of Israel’s claim to be European

The displacement of Israel from Asia to Europe is neither innocent nor inconsequential

Politics

7 d. ago Fintan O’Toole: Ireland has two economies, one bourgeois, one proletarian. Both have problems

The bourgeoisification of the Irish workforce is a remarkable phenomenon

Politics

2 w. ago Fintan O'Toole: Irish economic miracle has been like riding two horses on a surfboard

Now we are caught in a Catch 22 of our own making on migration and infrastructure

Economics

3 w. ago Fintan O'Toole: Donald Trump made a fatal error when he invited vampire Jeffrey Epstein in

A nocturnal Count Jeffrey continues to hover at the window of Donald Trump’s White House bedroom

Politics

3 w. ago Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride: Facts, not tribalism, should help decide on a united Ireland

The journalists and columnists say we owe it to each other – and to those who have suffered in the past – to have a debate that is considerate and thoughful.

Politics

3 w. ago Ireland’s Changing Suburbs: Fintan O’Toole on the commodification of Crumlin

Traditional suburbs such as Crumlin are now far beyond the means of the working-class families they were built to house

Politics

3 w. ago Ireland’s Changing Suburbs: Fintan O’Toole on the transformation of Crumlin

Traditional suburbs such as Crumlin are now far beyond the means of the working-class families they were built to house

Politics

4 w. ago Fintan O'Toole: Government wants talk of a united Ireland to go away, but that’s not an option

Not one of the 2,000 scenarios it considers for the next 40 years involves the ending of partition

Politics