He also writes regularly for Hot Press magazine Jason O'Toole earned a BA in humanities and an MA in political communication from Dublin City University (DCU).
[3] It was filmed at Dublin's The Civic theatre and had a new score written for it by David Bowie's Next Day album collaborator Gerry Leonard[4] and was read by Titanic star Jason Barry[5] and Rex Ryan.
It aired on Virgin Media Ireland over three nights in September 2023; causing huge controversy, with three senior government ministers criticising it before it had even been screened.
He wrote the biography of the former Taoiseach, Brian Cowen: The Path to Power (published by Transworld, a division of Random House, in October 2008).
Writing in the Sunday Independent, political writer John Drennan stated: "...this reads like a fast-paced thriller crossed with scenes of farce that would be more appropriate to Halls Pictorial Weekly.
End of the Party lifts the lid off the crypt of internal politicking and political ambition that buried Fianna Fail and the country.
"[This quote needs a citation] O'Toole has a co-author credit on Jimmy Magee's memoir, "The Memory Man", published in Sept 2012 by Gill & Macmillan.
O'Toole directed the controversial three-part docuseries Confessions of a Crime Boss which aired on Virgin Media Ireland in September 2023.
He also wrote a major weekly 2,000-words music interview with countless iconic figures, such as The Doors, Sex Pistols, Tom Jones, Elvis Costello, Tito Jackson, Jehtro Tull, Simple Minds, and Iron Maiden for the Irish Daily Mirror.