Austerity
Fintan O’Toole: Has Ireland had a lost decade?
Did Ireland learn anything from its dramatic financial crash 10 years ago? Not much concludes Fintan O’Toole. Read here
Fintan O’Toole
EU politics
Fintan O’Toole: The hard-won kinship between Britain and Ireland is threatened by Brexit idiocy
Few understand, or care about for that matter, the existential question concerning the reintroduction of a hard border between Ireland the Northern Ireland. The Irish fear that the EU is selling them down the river […]
Austerity
Fintan O’Toole: Let’s imagine the homeless have foot-and-mouth
Part of neo-liberalism system is to convince us that the abnormal is normal. What we yesterday condemned or found repelling is actually quite alright – normal. Fintan O’Toole iedentifies this process with regard to homelessness […]
Corruption
Fintan O’Toole: The corruption of Irish banking goes back 30 years
Fintan O’toole is right. The problems with the banks, be it in the US, UK, and apparently in Ireland, started 30 years ago, which is when neo-liberlalism began its crusade. It marked the end of […]
EU politics
Fintan O’Toole: The lie that poverty is a moral failing was buried a century ago. Now it’s back
We live again in a world of Victorian values risen from the graves in which Shaw and the other great anti-Victorians buried them. We live again in a world where the rich pleasure themselves with the […]