As I started to read Fintan O’Toole’s “Ship of Fools” I grabbed a stack of Post-it notes to mark interesting passages and key points for easy reference later. The trouble is, after 40 pages it became clear that marking ever page, or every other page, was not a good way to go back to reading

... years ahead of these: John Dillon's brief pamphlet Platonism and the World Crisis). Now Fintan O'Toole, columnist with the Irish Times has brought out his own contribution ... ship fools, fools, celtic tiger, tiger, ship, celtic, irish, fintan, bank, country, than, ireland, boom, o'toole, faster than Categories: Fintan O'Toole, Ship of Fools, Corruption, ...

... 3/4am. On a side note, my brother shove my cousin's sony SD card into Fintan's SD slot and it got stuck. Firstly, why must my brother do such a thing! Like ... fault but oh wells. Spent a few minutes googling on wht to do (I LOVE GOOGLE) and eventually got it out. ALmost had to bring Fintan down to visit the Fujitsu guy tmr but thankfully there wasnt a need to. Saw Mr Brown today when I ...

Fintan O'Toole has an interesting if depressing article in The Irish Times this weekend. In it he gives an overview of the events that shaped the first decade of the 21st century, a period that future historians will regard as one of global transition. Fintan writes: the Noughties will look like the last roll of the dice for a whole set of assumptions that have been in place since the ...

... exactitude few living writers could match." Terry Eagleton on Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger by Fintan O'Toole: "In its rise and fall, as Fintan O'Toole remarks in this superb polemic, 'Ireland made Icarus look boringly stable.' It had moved from being the poster child of ...

... Husband has actually dealt with the poo. On top of that, yesterday morning I find myself combing my way through Fintan's litter box, in search of the perfect poo. A poo that was nice and fresh, not to big and not to small. A sample that was good enough to be scooped and bagged and given to the vet for Fintan's annual check-up. Who knew that I, Ms. Avoider of All Things Poo Related, Ms. ...

... is having a co-founder. I did solo founder before and it was a longer and lonelier path to follow. Virtual working has diluted some of the benefits - even with us spending more time in Fintan's place we still have not reaped the benefits of being able to brainstorm and work through stuff with each other. So we went looking for cheap reasonably priced accommodation and found it. We are ...

... great evening as usual, with varied keynote and microslot talks and the usual Oxford(shire) geek chat and networking. Interestingly, we've ended up with common threads through the two quite different keynote talks. Fintan Galvin, who's talking about the semantic web and its effect on marketing strategies on the web we're more at home with, will be explaining how the former will change ...

... , N.J., 125 Kinderkamack Rd, Montvale, N.J. 07645, www.porterhouseusa.com. Competitors and guests will enjoy free buffet with cash bar, on-site parking and authentic Irish hospitality by Fintan Seeley, the restaurateur and a rally driver. All interested in attending should contact Michael Cosgrove at iorras@aol.com . Rally New York, Ltd., promoter of New York Rally Championship has announced the ...

... , as it merely demonstrates that we still condescendingly feel Ireland is an extension of the United Kingdom. Well, to me and many others without condescension, the ROI has always been a home nation.  Fintan O’Toole’s reflection is nearer the mark.  It would have been almost comforting had Ireland failed because they were simply not good enough. Fatalism is still the ...

Via Lee Grace, review some great looking pages from Machines, Miracles or Magic, a collective anthology of short stories and comics, with contributions from artists based in Ireland. Includes award winning Illustrators Alé Mercado, Chris Judge, Joven Kerekes, Nerosunero and Fintan Taite. (Featured strip by Chris Judge.)

Book review: Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger21 November 2009, The ScotsmanBy DAVID ROBINSON"How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger by Fintan O'TooleIN THE 1980s I lived for half a dozen years in Ireland. It's an easy country to fall... read more

... this country free from such a twisted dogma, then so be it. In short, and without meaning to sound any way facetious, we need a national exorcism to rid us of this devil. Amidst all the coverage of this appalling national tragedy, two articles, for me, get to the heart of the matter: they are by the peerless Mary Raftery in yesterday's Irish Times, and Fintan O'Toole in today's Times.

... Church we have an organisation with an unusually powerful mechanism of self-protection: the capacity to convince the society it is abusing to take part in the cover-up. The damage the church has done to Irish society lies in the ways it has involved that society in the maintenance of an abusive instrument of control and power.: Fintan O’Toole on the range of the Catholic Church’s abuse.

... Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There? A first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or Beatrix Potter’s personal copy of The Tale of Peter Rabbit? The LA Times can tell ye how. Fintan O’Toole points out the difference between UK and Irish book buying: Of the top 20 bestselling books in the UK that week, just one – The Guinness Book of Records – was non-fiction. ...