Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?
The range of departments engaged in this alarming disappearing act suggests it is not accidental
Fintan O'Toole
Fintan O'Toole columns
At a time when the boom is even boomer, this statistic should mortify us
The stark fact is that there are students sitting Junior and Leaving Cert exams today who went to bed hungry last night
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Netanyahu’s big lie is that ‘They’ are not really the same species as ‘Us’
Right from the start of his assault on the population of Gaza, this has been Netanyahu’s mantra
Letters to the Editor May 28th: On Leaving Cert delays; offshore energy and Jayne Mansfield
One hopes there is more commonsense to go around
If there’s so much buyer’s remorse about Brexit, why is Nigel Farage the rising figure in UK politics?
Ten years on, an angry tribe sees itself as more English than British - and Ireland must stay alert to the dangers
If you want to see how democracies cede to autocracies, watch as US universities bend to Trump
If a rich and famous institution such as Columbia doesn’t stand up for itself, what chance have millions of ordinary people?
Ireland is running out of priests. There is an obvious solution
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 and Boris Johnson have a lot in common
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
Is nothing sacred, even at a pope’s funeral?
We are at a very strange moment in our cultural evolution – one that threatens the very possibility of spiritual experience
State has reached crisis of irresponsibility that resonates far beyond Grace’s grim story
Fintan O’Toole: This 30-year debacle should finally bring home to us the reality that official accountability does not exist
There’s a psychosexual dimension to Trump’s tariffs. You don’t have to be Freud to see it
When they bought into Trump, the tech bros purchased his whole inflated persona – every whim, craze and dark fantasy
The American counter-revolution is being led by Dow Jones, S&P and Nasdaq
The most effective pushback against Donald Trump right now is a plunging financial graph
The underlying problem of boyhood is manhood
There is nothing natural about male violence. Boys are growing up in a profoundly troubled culture
Ireland’s delightful love triangle is ending in a nasty divorce
We are the Artful Dodgers of the globalised world, experts at ducking and diving - but even the Dodger gets caught in the end
Ireland is not a mere victim of Maga madness – we help to provoke it
Being honest about this helps to clarify where Ireland’s real interests lie
Kieran Cuddihy: Newstalk hung all the shows on the brand, the personality. That changed with Andrea Gilligan and myself
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
A cunning plan for Ireland’s sweaty moment of exposure to the glare of the orange sun king
How should Micheál Martin deal with Donald Trump when he meets him in the White House?
European leaders seem astounded by Trump’s bullying and blatant aggression
They had fooled themselves into believing what they wanted to believe
The idiot wind now howling through the US offers Ireland a transformative windfall
Fintan O’Toole: Trump is complaining that we pick America’s pocket. Fair enough – we should instead pick America’s brains
Omagh victims and their families deserve better than ‘there was no alternative’ to violence
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
Trump’s adoption of imperial manner is a function of failure
The essential question for Ireland is: to grovel or not to grovel?
Why does Micheál Martin allow himself to look so comfortable with shady deals?
In allowing himself to appear as the creature of Michael Lowry, the Taoiseach seems oblivious to the damage he is doing to his own character
An unfortunate incident of photobombing at the Áras highlights big problem for our democracy
It’s hard to see how super juniors bringing “their own memos” to cabinet meetings for decision by Government can be lawful
Rub your head for a new university in Kilgarvan - just don’t call it a ‘deal’
In the grey zones between deal and no deal, nothing will be written down for prying eyes to discover under FOI. We are back in the land of the unknown knowns
Five years after Covid, we scorn health workers, ignore vaccines and work in our offices
What happened to the need to end commuting and presenteeism? Or to our gratitude for healthcare workers or our resolution to change how we care for older people?
It’s a national indignity that the new government will rely on Michael Lowry
There is a statute of limitations on civic virtue as Lowry is openly embraced as the power broker of the new government
Ten predictions experts made about the world in 2025. All of them are wrong
When it comes to predicting the future, you might as well ask an astrologer as a rational expert
‘My grandad is dead. I am going to tennis today’: Christmas letters to my son, 1997
My family spent Christmas 1997 in New York. I recently found the letters that my then seven-year-old’s classmates wrote to him
Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan wins An Post Irish Book of the Year 2024
Author repeats success with sequel to his debut The Spinning Heart, which won award in 2012
We’re heading for the second biggest fiscal disaster in the history of the State
The idea that the Green Party was making us all go too far too fast is the exact opposite of the truth
‘Spit on me Dickie!’ scandalised the Church. But Rock was more safety valve than satanic threat
There were soon much more exotic ways to be a teenager than going into violent hysterics for Dickie Rock, but for a time, he filled the gap between who Irish teenagers were and who they were supposed to be
Fintan O’Toole on his career: ‘You had to learn to live with the fact that some people despised you’
The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex
Other Voices 2024: Laura Marling enraptures, Kojaque surprises. It can only be Dingle’s essential festival
What audiences are told before gigs at St James’ Church says it all: turn off your phone and just be in the moment
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