Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Fintan O’Toole is op-ed columnist and literary editor of The Irish Times. Born in Dublin in 1958, he has been Leonard L Milberg lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton, drama critic of the Sunday Tribune, The New York Daily News and The Irish Times, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and literary advisor to the Abbey Theatre. He also edited Magill magazine. His most recent books are 'A History of Ireland in 100 Objects'; 'Up the Republic!'; 'Enough is Enough'; 'Ship of Fools'; and ' Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain'.
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Published in: Home: OpinionWatch: How Dominic Cummings' contempt made us feelDirector Mark Cousins has turned Fintan O'Toole's words into a powerful statement of public anger: 'This Violation'...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKListen England, it is Ireland talkingBrexit is fuelled by an English nationalism as crude and self-deluded as Irish nationalism used to be. The best...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Britain must accept ambiguity to survive BrexitTheresa May and Brexiteers both insist on a damaging binary view of the UK and Europe.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why the Irish political elite is terrified of SyrizaThe Irish political elite is deeply invested in an essentially religious narrative: Ireland sinned, Ireland...
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Published in: HomeInto EuropeEach EU country has a relationship to Europe which tells you about its own makeup, character and inclinations....
