For his already fanatical devotees Trump’s survival will add to his messianic appeal
That Trump became a victim of the very violence he has done so much to validate will not provoke either him or his fans to think again. It will merely serve to fortify a mindset in which America is already at war with itself
Welcome to adventure holiday politics ... white-water rafting with Brexit, bungee jumping with Trump
To put it crudely, a big part of the appeal of Brexit was scale. It felt like a very big thing to do, just as, later in 2016, electing a celebrity non-politician to the White House felt big
Fintan O’Toole: Democrats and their media allies pretended everything was fine. It’s not fine
Fintan O’Toole: If the Democrats persist with Joe Biden, the United States is in imminent danger of being handed back to a Trump who is vastly more malign than he was in 2016
Cathal Crotty’s suspended sentence another example of how judicial system is failing women
The administration of justice for violent men is out of kilter with our values and we can no longer suspend disbelief
Failure to prevent destruction of records is a further insult to those whose identities were stolen
To treat these records with such contempt is to repeat the contempt shown by Church and State to thousands of women and children
Sinn Féin was the shock absorber of Irish politics. It’s worn out
Local and European elections: Don’t be fooled by the Coalition parties’ electoral success. The right is rising
There’s one fundamental reason why we have a housing crisis
The wealthier the State has become, the more money it shells just to find homeless families a bed for the night
Ireland is poor at innovation, but a world-class producer of complacency and self-satisfaction
It’s not about the failure of lone geniuses to have eureka moments in the bath. It’s not caused by the lack of work ethic. It’s about the collective environment
Tony O’Reilly’s secret past shaped his need to play the life of an Ascendancy landlord
It’s hard to avoid the belief that something of his anomalous origins must have been present in what O’Reilly became
Dublin portal reminds us that our capital has an uneasy edge of wildness
Fintan O’Toole: The erection of the portal linking night-time inner city Dublin to daytime New York was a heroic act of denial
One of the two main museums dedicated to memory of Great Famine has disappeared. That’s astonishing
That the world’s largest collection of visual art and printed materials relating to the Great Famine is in storage in America is a grim story of what happens when a nation fails to take ownership of a central part of its own history
A hard Border is now a patriotic cause - and we laughed at the British for that kind of nonsense
Giving these gifts to the 'Ireland is full' mob borders on the insane.
Catastrophic decline of wild Irish salmon is another of the slow scandals of Irish life
Over the last few decades, we’ve driven the salmon from our rivers, recklessly but ruthlessly
Have we ditched the Stardust-era stereotype that the working classes are wild and reckless?
Both reports unknowingly unleashed demons of prejudice that were hidden in the Id of the Irish establishment.
We are facing the terrifying result of the West’s three stupid mistakes in the Middle East
In Jerusalem and Tehran, there are people who pray for Armageddon