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Fintan O'Toole

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Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad

Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad

Someone needs to tell him the truth or swathes of the world could be turned into Gaza writ large

yesterday 9

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If there’s so much buyer’s remorse about Brexit, why is Nigel Farage the rising figure in UK politics?

27.05.2025 10

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If you want to see how democracies cede to autocracies, watch as US universities bend to Trump

20.05.2025 10

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Ireland is running out of priests. There is an obvious solution

13.05.2025 10

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Fintan O’Toole: Kneecap and Boris Johnson have a lot in common

06.05.2025 20

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Is nothing sacred, even at a pope’s funeral?

29.04.2025 10

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State has reached crisis of irresponsibility that resonates far beyond Grace’s grim story

22.04.2025 20

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There’s a psychosexual dimension to Trump’s tariffs. You don’t have to be Freud to see it

15.04.2025 20

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The voice of the Almighty Dollar is shouting stop, Mr Trump

08.04.2025 10

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Boys want love, trust and intimacy just as much as girls do

01.04.2025 6

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Ireland’s delightful love triangle is ending in a nasty divorce

25.03.2025 9

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Donald Trump is right about Ireland’s relationship with Big Pharma

18.03.2025 10

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A cunning plan to bring Saint Patrick’s writings to the White House

11.03.2025 20

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The idea of Trump the dealmaker avoids a monstrous truth

04.03.2025 10

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Trump and Musk’s war on science presents a startling opportunity for Ireland

25.02.2025 10

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Omagh victims and their families deserve better than ‘there was no alternative’ to violence

18.02.2025 6

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Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s adoption of imperial manner is a function of failure

11.02.2025 10

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Does Micheál Martin understand his own brand?

04.02.2025 10

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An unfortunate incident of photobombing at the Áras highlights big problem for our democracy

28.01.2025 10

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What’s the dirtiest four-letter word in Irish politics? ‘Deal’

21.01.2025 10

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Five years after Covid, we scorn health workers, ignore vaccines and work in our offices

14.01.2025 10

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It’s a national indignity that the new government will rely on Michael Lowry

In 1944, when France was liberated from the Nazis, its restored republic faced a dilemma. The normal process of law could not deal with the tens of...

07.01.2025 20

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Fintan O’Toole: 10 expert predictions about the world in 2025. All of them are wrong

I thought about making some predictions for 2025. And then I had a look at a detailed report drawn up in 2008 by the US National Intelligence...

31.12.2024 10

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‘Our class is on the internet’ ... ‘Mary McAleese is the president.’ Christmas letters to my son, 1997

The Christmas of 1997 was the first one we spent away from home. I had gone to work as drama critic of the Daily News in New York. My wife took a...

24.12.2024 5

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We’re heading for the second biggest fiscal disaster in the history of the State

The new Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael administration will be like a tanker that has to get into a tricky port but has just managed to scupper its tugboat....

17.12.2024 5

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