Both reports unknowingly unleashed demons of prejudice that were hidden in the Id of the Irish establishment.
Fintan O'Toole
Finatan O'Toole columns
In Jerusalem and Tehran, there are people who pray for Armageddon
Israel is the child of the very international order it is now helping to destroy
And that’s just one of the big problems Simon Harris will face as taoiseach
His trajectory is proof that however you get to the top in Irish politics, it is not by fixing things
His faith in ‘simple market dynamics’ provided no real answers to Ireland’s long-term questions
There’s an interesting thing about this massive development: it doesn’t exist. It is an outline drawing of a possible notion
What has taken the place of Catholic doctrine as a governing ideology is a passionless managerialism
Even if the Government’s wording were not so wretched, there would be good grounds to vote against it to protest against the process of its creation
RTÉ is a toxic brew whose commercial business and profit-seeking push stale content, ads and inflated salaries at the expense of public service
Oireachtas committees are paper tigers. Why would anyone worry too much about what they think of them?
Now I’m about to turn 66, the Government wants me to delay taking my State pension. So why penalise me for not taking it?
It is an absolute requirement of democracy that those who exercise such power are accountable
What’s most extraordinary is that women themselves accepted that paid work was a male prerogative
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