It’s hard to avoid the belief that something of his anomalous origins must have been present in what O’Reilly became
Fintan O'Toole
Fintan O'Toole columns
Fintan O’Toole: The erection of the portal linking night-time inner city Dublin to daytime New York was a heroic act of denial
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
Giving these gifts to the 'Ireland is full' mob borders on the insane.
Over the last few decades, we’ve driven the salmon from our rivers, recklessly but ruthlessly
Both reports unknowingly unleashed demons of prejudice that were hidden in the Id of the Irish establishment.
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
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