Miriam Lord: Down with this particular sort of swing!Dark mutterings of ‘dirty tricks’ as Maria Bailey’s night out hogged the headlinesSat May 25 2019 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Swings and roundabouts for Fine Gael as it seeks to tackle compo cultureLegitimate personal injury case risks taking shine off party’s much-trumpeted crusadeWed May 22 2019 - 22:11
Miriam Lord: Prince Charles glimpses Irish nature at close quartersIt took an Anglo-Irish effort to remove Boxer Moran and Andrew Doyle from the frameTue May 21 2019 - 21:48
Miriam Lord: Charles and Camilla love coming to Ireland, and don’t mind saying itPrince of Wales and President stress close ties at Glencree, ‘No matter what happens’Tue May 21 2019 - 07:46
Miriam Lord: Bare necessities as O’Sullivan canvasses door to doorNaturist warning, Mansion House drink, Stepaside JCB, Daly and singing politiciansSat May 18 2019 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Leo’s Dáil lecture leaves TDs itching and scratchingGreen Party leader was not won over by Taoiseach’s ‘rational’ approach to broadbandWed May 15 2019 - 21:32
Miriam Lord: Broadband is all Labour’s idea, Varadkar tells a stunned HowlinTaoiseach reckons if you can’t get Opposition to support the plan, then make them own itTue May 14 2019 - 22:07
Miriam Lord: Frances Fitzgerald’s dog rescue tweet comes back to bite herFormer tánaiste’s heroic good deed in finding lost pooch turns out to be a shaggy dog storySat May 11 2019 - 01:20
Miriam Lord: Who dares question the rural broadband plan?FG Ministers bristle at suggestion they’re promising broadband to reel in rural votersWed May 08 2019 - 22:47
Miriam Lord: Healy-Rae’s Delaney devotion reaches fever pitchThe Seanad is led to the guillotine as McDowell stages a judicial uprisingSat Apr 20 2019 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Nancy Pelosi and Bono induce fan mania in DáilStarstruck politicians press flesh and take selfies as US speaker and rocker add glamourWed Apr 17 2019 - 22:27
Miriam Lord: Can the FAI survive the attack of the bean counters?Transparency issues still there for all to see as committee demands end to ‘drip-feed’Tue Apr 16 2019 - 22:30
Clare Daly and Mick Wallace to contest European electionsTDs make decision during West Cork trip with Independents4Change membersMon Apr 15 2019 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s week: Never mind Monday – Catherine Byrne doesn’t like ThursdaysMinister has been gamely standing in for absent colleagues in Department of HealthSat Apr 13 2019 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Delaney becomes a slave to silence as TDs go bonkersFormer FAI chief spoke only when modestly outlining his great work on behalf of IrelandWed Apr 10 2019 - 22:25
Miriam Lord: Boosting Cork’s populace part of Varadkar plan to 2040Park-and-ride points posited as balm for long-commuting citizens of costly second cityTue Apr 09 2019 - 22:00
Miriam Lord: Sinn Féin’s answer to St Francis of Assisi canvasses in WaterfordHeartwarming tale of a starling, a hedgehog, a badger and the local election candidateSat Apr 06 2019 - 03:00
Miriam Lord: Merkel frightens horses but owns the gig at FarmleighShe waved and vanished inside followed by an entourage the size of Lower SaxonyFri Apr 05 2019 - 08:33
Miriam Lord: Finian McGrath more skulk than usual swaggerMinister of State ‘like dog who cocked his leg against the sideboard, feigning nonchalance’Wed Apr 03 2019 - 21:26
Miriam Lord: Fianna Fáil wants in on big Brexit plan that doesn’t existIt’s all about ducks in a row when it comes to the Belgooly water supplyTue Apr 02 2019 - 22:04
Miriam Lord: Thin-skinned Taoiseach’s stand-up gags fall flatVaradkar makes lame jokes about Oliver Callan as Michael Collins lip syncs to AbbaSat Mar 30 2019 - 02:00
Miriam Lord: Time to stand still, at least on Leo’s watchDaylight Facesaving Time set to continue, even in post-Brexit IrelandWed Mar 27 2019 - 22:00
Miriam Lord: Everything ‘grand’ for Varadkar amid Brexit chaos‘Le Brexit, mon ami? It will be very difficult, no?’ asks MacronTue Mar 26 2019 - 21:55
Miriam Lord: Wild weekend in Wexford as Fine Gael party meets hen partyThe conference at the Clayton Hotel was livened up by a gaggle of hooting bridesmaidsMon Mar 25 2019 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Tokens, Istanbul Convention and Independent womenPlanning permission, the civil servant who bowed out and male unease at period povertySat Mar 16 2019 - 02:00
Miriam Lord: This will cost a lot of bother and money. And probably your job, TheresaBrexit votes: Nothing can be assumed from Westminster’s panorama of pandemoniumWed Mar 13 2019 - 21:47
Miriam Lord: Dáil walks on eggshells but Westminster goes loonyA fretful Dáil avoided upsetting our highly strung neighbours. It made no differenceTue Mar 12 2019 - 22:00
Miriam Lord’s week: Coveney poetically tightens British ties over dinnerTánaiste welcomed Charles and Camilla to a Brexit-fuelled mutual admiration sessionSat Mar 09 2019 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Boring old Brexit Bill hits the buffers earlyMinister and Munster trade insults after achingly dull debate mercifully wraps upWed Mar 06 2019 - 22:06
Miriam Lord: Maestro Micheál swept away by chamber musicMark Durkan playing second fiddle to Frances Fitzgerald in Euro electionsTue Mar 05 2019 - 22:29
Miriam Lord: Winston Churchtown feels the pressureCommittee members get hot under the collar as Minister pops up in the DáilSat Mar 02 2019 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Once again, broadband proves it’s a political hot potatoVaradkar pushes the due diligence message, while warning costs could be much higherWed Feb 27 2019 - 22:38
Miriam Lord: Cautious welcome in the Dáil for Brexit Apocalypse BillGovernment hopes Bill will mitigate consequences – and that it will never be neededTue Feb 26 2019 - 22:16
Miriam Lord: Rebranding FF ‘the responsible party’ proves trickyMartin makes case for sticking with confidence-and-supply deal to reluctant delegatesSun Feb 24 2019 - 20:58
Miriam Lord’s Week: Giddiness and score-settling in a confidence-shaking Dáil sessionA Maltese minister visited Leinster House and it wasn’t a pretty sightSat Feb 23 2019 - 05:55
Miriam Lord: Motion of no confidence fails to find single targetSimon Harris, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin all take turns in ‘sleeveen politics’ attack sessionWed Feb 20 2019 - 22:10
Miriam Lord: Reeling from all the spinAssembly of the guilty when spinning yarns about hospital costs continue to unravelTue Feb 19 2019 - 22:19
Miriam Lord: Zappone corners Bill Gates to defend Ireland’s honourMinister tells Microsoft man in Addis Ababa that Ireland’s aid funding has not ‘plateaued’Sat Feb 16 2019 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Little love in a cold climate for Martin and VaradkarThere’s a Valentine’s card for the Taoiseach but Micheál leaves his colleagues feeling unlovedWed Feb 13 2019 - 22:25
Miriam Lord: Never mind the cost overruns that nobody noticed. Just think of the childrenThe Government is only talking millions. Piffling amountsTue Feb 12 2019 - 22:00
Miriam Lord: Peter Casey likes to remind us ‘he hasn’t gone away’The presidential hopeful is apparently looking at a run for Europe, and maybe the DáilSat Feb 09 2019 - 00:05
Miriam Lord: Ireland is the cost overrun champion of the worldGovernment aims to get to the bottom of children’s hospital overspend, as we reach the Enda daysThu Feb 07 2019 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Government knows value of everything but cost of nothingVaradkar resorts to Wildean Reverse when faced with questions about children’s hospitalTue Feb 05 2019 - 22:30
Miriam Lord: What’s the beef with taking a lead on climate change?James Reilly insists the Oireachtas takes (electric) charge amid inaction on the issueSat Feb 02 2019 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Michael Healy-Rae gets on board the Local LinkKerry Independents fume at drink-driving restrictions on rural socialisingWed Jan 30 2019 - 21:45
Miriam Lord: Leo claims he never beat anyone, and then wheels out the Brexit heavy artilleryBríd Smith berates the Taoiseach’s ‘hard neck’, and tells him to stop ‘all the macho shaping up to the nurses’Tue Jan 29 2019 - 22:16
Miriam Lord: Taking the Dáil hacks out for a 100-year-old mealFashion always has a role to play, even in the halls of Leinster HouseSat Jan 26 2019 - 00:11
Miriam Lord: Silence is the golden rule for BrexitMartin, McDonald wore green for Leaders’ Questions but Leo put on his smartest suit for DavosWed Jan 23 2019 - 21:23
Miriam Lord: High-priced hospital? This is a job for The ConsultantsThe cost of the children’s hospital has tripled but Leo’s not worried: PwC is on the caseTue Jan 22 2019 - 21:24
Miriam Lord: Gas light, relics and rare parliamentary action in the Mansion HouseDáil maintains that time honoured tradition with lively centenary celebrationMon Jan 21 2019 - 23:25
