In the summer of 1930 he was offered a position as an accountant with the Electricity Supply Board at a time when they were expanding the National Grid and constructing significant Hydro-Electric projects such as Ardnacrusha.

[3] In 1958, Andrew was offered and accepted the chairmanship of the Irish transport company Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ), which was in a perilous fiscal state.

Steam traction was eliminated under his chairmanship, a cost benefit that undoubtedly saved CIE from certain collapse, while modern vans and lorries took on the delivery of freights in place of horse and carriage.

Despite such economies, CIE still struggled under a state expectation that it run without subvention; an impossible task given the sparse traffic and passenger numbers in a land cropped by emigration.

[9] Todd Andrews was a firm advocate of state-sponsored enterprise and economic intervention, drawing inspiration from the statist approaches he observed in Germany and the Soviet Union, particularly regarding the use of peat bogs for fuel.

Identifying as a radical and aligning with the leftist tendencies of early Fianna Fáil, Andrews viewed reunification of Ireland as essential to resolving the country's challenges.

In his 1970s column, Gallimaufry, for de Valera's Irish Press, Andrews consistently argued for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland and the end of their governance claims over any part of the island.

[3] Progressive for his time, he held liberal views on issues like divorce and contraception and harboured a deep-seated antipathy toward the Catholic Church's political influence, rooted in his republicanism and his excommunication during the Civil War.

Known for his uncompromising opinions, his bluntness often led to workplace tensions, with Bord na Móna employees joking about the necessity of appointing someone to mitigate the strikes his outspokenness provoked.