#fintanotoole — Public Fediverse posts
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Ireland's #FuelProtests have been run by bullying men with big machines and far-right politics.
#FintanOToole on how the far right has seized the agenda in Irish politics.
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European #fascism drew heavily on the symbolism, techniques, and goals of the #USA's rightwing. #FintanOToole eloquently punctures the myth that fascism is a European concept misapplied to American politics.
#oToole is well past his peak, but this is is an important framing of #Trump and #MAGA.
Podcast available at:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/inside-politics-with-hugh-linehan/id794389685
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1MF6fZ8iLrwvVsq59xFX1k?si=oVgXsg_mR2OXdABd2C21ag
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Fintan O'Toole is a liberal rather a lefty, but he is a social democratic liberal rather than a classical liberal. So there was hope that the doyen of Irish columnists would show some sympathy with Connolly's views.
But instead, the mighty O'Toole has thrown his lot in unequivocally with #TheIrishTimes's strident loyalty to the EU's militarism. :(
Paywalled original: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/09/30/fintan-otoole-catherine-connolly-should-try-to-keep-her-inner-basil-fawlty-under-wraps/
Archived full text: https://archive.is/fD6RL
#IrishTimes #FintanOToole #CatherineConnolly #Aras25 -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/228725/ I have had more wives than Henry VIII. It’s news to me too – The Irish Times #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #chatgpt #FintanOtoole #OpenAI #PeterO'Toole #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
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A fine profile piece from #FintanOToole on Dr. Ivor Browne who passed recently
In a country which had a long ugly history of incarcerating individuals deemed unfit to be allowed in public (Magdalene Launderies, Industrial Schools), Browne advocated for the treatment of #MentalHealth beyond the boundaries of walled asylums, eliminating the shame of #MentalIllness for many in #Ireland
Subscription Required:🔑 https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/01/25/we-trusted-ivor-browne-with-our-darkest-secrets-he-was-one-of-irelands-great-liberators/
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This is a very interesting take by Fintan O'Toole on the historical context of the recent riot in Dublin. I am not knowledgeable on the subject so I'd be interested on what others, better informed than me, make of his analysis.
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This is a very interesting take by Fintan O'Toole on the historical context of the recent riot in Dublin. I am not knowledgeable on the subject so I'd be interested on what others, better informed than me, make of his analysis.
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This is a very interesting take by Fintan O'Toole on the historical context of the recent riot in Dublin. I am not knowledgeable on the subject so I'd be interested on what others, better informed than me, make of his analysis.
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Interesting take by Fintan O’Toole in the New York Review on the current situation in the Middle East. TL;DR it's not good. He thinks (from his recent writing and podcasts) that Israel has no viable end game and seems to be relying on the Americans, British and French to send troops in to restore order and rebuild the West Bank. If that is the case then they are delusional.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/10/31/no-endgame-in-gaza/
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Great article from #FintanOToole for those of you that have an #IrishTimes subscripion
FOT serves and important reminder that history is complex and rarely simplistically binary. The intersection of #IrishHistory with #Palestine and #Israel during the last century is both complicated and surprising
#Mastodaoine #MiddleEast
🔑 https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/10/24/fintan-otoole-ireland-is-weirdly-entwined-with-the-idea-of-a-jewish-homeland-but-not-in-the-way-many-imagine -
As a former user of #Twitter and news hound (i will admit to lurking at times), I can think of many good journalists I would like to see on #Mastodon:
Irish columnist #FintanOToole is a name the jumps immediately to mind. Here, he's wrriting on the perils of #genealogy in Nazi Germany
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/the-trouble-with-ancestry-fatherland-burkhard-bilger/
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Fintan O'Toole about the Nobel Prize winning scientists that have been warning us about the climate crisis and the need to stop driving and otherwise polluting since the 1950s - and how we have managed to avoid hearing them
#ClimateCrisis #FintanOToole #EdwardTeller
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/08/15/fintan-otoole-all-my-life-there-have-been-climate-warnings-were-ingenious-at-ignoring-them/ -
This deal could have been struck in 2021 – but the last thing Brexiters wanted was to get Brexit done
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/28/deal-2021-brexiteers-get-brexit-done-eurosceptic-boris-johnson?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#NIProtocolDeal
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Fintan O'Toole on the concept of 'Moral Hazard', where the poor can't be helped because it'd make them lazy, but crooked builders must be bailed out by taxpayers, despite the certainty that they'll go straight back and do the same again https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/01/24/fintan-otoole-irish-moral-hazard-means-being-bailed-out-by-the-state-if-you-build-a-slum/ #MoralHazard #FintanOToole
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“It used to be cocaine that was, as Robin Williams had it, God’s way of telling you that you have too much money. Now it’s buying #Twitter for $44 billion and setting fire to it…”
#FintanOToole: Musk’s #TantrumCapitalism explodes myth of buccaneering #libertarianism - The #IrishTimes
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#ElonMusk gets the #FintanOToole treatment (Sub Req). I’m not sure if #TantrumCapitalism is an O’Toole creation but it has now been added to as a new favorite to my lexicon 😜
FOT nails it when he describes #Musk’s version of #FreeSpeech as “Shut up and listen to me.”