Views
O'Toole has criticised what he sees as negative attitudes towards immigration in Ireland, the state of Ireland's public services, growing inequality during Ireland's economic boom, the Iraq War and the US military's use of Shannon Airport, among many other issues. In 2006, he spent six months reporting for The Irish Times in China.
His former editor, Geraldine Kennedy, was paid more than the editor of the UK's top non-tabloid newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which has a circulation about nine times that of The Irish Times. Later, O'Toole told the rival Irish paper, the Sunday Independent: "We as a paper are not shy of preaching about corporate pay and fat cats but with this there is a sense of excess. Some of the sums mentioned are disturbing. This is not an attack on Ms Kennedy, it is an attack on the executive level of pay. There is double-standard of seeking more job cuts while paying these vast salaries."
In June 2012, O'Toole compared the Constitutional Convention (Ireland) to the Citizens Union, a reformist political organisation which Tammany Hall did not bother suppressing so long as did not threaten its hegemony.
O'Toole authored an abortion related piece in November 2012 about the death of Savita Halappanavar (when she was 17 weeks pregnant and miscarrying in an Irish Hospital) calling it a "a shameful departure from civilised norms", the case drew global media coverage and protests in several countries in addition to Ireland.
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