Miriam Lord: Independents lollop around like a pack of fussy dogsWill they cling to Micheál’s leg or stick with Enda? Or do a runner?Thu Apr 14 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny and Martin’s secret talks spring a leakGovernment formation talks seep out, while drinks flow at the Dáil bar along with Ó Cuív’s penSat Apr 09 2016 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Will nobody think of the National Interest?‘Make them stop!’: little National Interest rocks from side to side as its parents bickerFri Apr 08 2016 - 01:01
Miriam Lord: Enda and Micheál keep masks on as face-off loomsDáil sketch: Fine Gael leader did most of the wooing, but Martin played hard to getThu Apr 07 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Seanad university seats and a different independenceTension for Labour, old dreams for Fine Gael and a sweet tweet from Lynn BoylanSat Apr 02 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: What a shame we can’t do this every year2016 Revisited: It was the people’s Rising as they got out of bed and . . . went into town for a wanderTue Mar 29 2016 - 08:06
1916 centenary: The day a nation stood proud and rememberedMiriam Lord: Easter Rising commemorations resulted in a truly great day for Ireland and the IrishMon Mar 28 2016 - 08:05
Miriam Lord: Independents need jump leads and a hangerTaoiseach’s nameplate is a hot potato as Ministers try to impress TDs in negotiationsSat Mar 26 2016 - 14:05
Miriam Lord: Time drags as Enda tries out a bit of woodworkWord went around that the Taoiseach was going to unveil a ‘round table’Thu Mar 24 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: An acting Taoiseach results in no actionDáil suffers through a fruitless day of speechifying and ‘procedural wrangling’Wed Mar 23 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for 32nd Dáil openerSinn Féin runs riot but Mary Lou sits on her hands during tributes to Seán BarrettFri Mar 11 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Parties face off in shape-throwing contestAs preliminary heats end, Kenny, Martin and Adams lead the field in this ancient Dáil sportThu Mar 10 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Enda lends an ear as hats fly into the ringAs politicians eye the top jobs, this new politics starts to seem very familiarWed Mar 09 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Funchion trips the light fantasticNew Sinn Féin TD sashays into the limelight while Enda embraces his inner hipsterFri Mar 04 2016 - 23:50
Miriam Lord: Micheál Martin didn’t walk, but floated along the corridorsThe Fianna Fáil leader has a big problem – dealing with his party’s high spiritsThu Mar 03 2016 - 23:59
Tired Enda Kenny faces firing squad at National Museum’s 1916 exhibitionBeleaguered Taoiseach puts on a brave face as he enters Execution CornerThu Mar 03 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: War of attrition in RDS as recount drags onGerry Adams is still posing for photos with babies while Bertie Ahern sticks his oar inTue Mar 01 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: This was a FF election - not Fianna Fáil, but fractured and fragmentedFor all the Left-wing celebration, a move to old ways leaves Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil brass neck and brass neckMon Feb 29 2016 - 10:27
Miriam Lord: In fiscal space no one can hear you screamCampaign awards as election showtime beginsFri Feb 26 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: No more thrills at top of Misery HillCandidates bleat fairness and balance – but after that, things become more complicatedThu Feb 25 2016 - 06:31
Miriam Lord: Last waltz for The Whinge QuartetThe conductor in leaders’ election debate outshone them all, she wielded a stern batonWed Feb 24 2016 - 00:03
Miriam Lord: From crest of 2011 wave, Enda has two regretsTaoiseach’s future in politics hangs in the balance. It all looked so different five years agoTue Feb 23 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Small parties bereft of sufficient cash to be boringOur big four breathlessly announce ‘the launch’ of yet another drab policy messageSat Feb 20 2016 - 11:05
Grilled Gerry, paranoid chickens and Donald’s carpetMicheál Martin is criss-crossing the country doing those good old- fashioned walkaboutsFri Feb 19 2016 - 09:30
Miriam Lord: Enda Kenny is on hand for a robotic displayThe Fine Gael crisis coach departed Dublin for Offaly as the Taoiseach talked warThu Feb 18 2016 - 11:28
Miriam Lord: Claire Byrne like a teacher addressing senior infantsSeven-way discussion was never going to provide game-changing answersTue Feb 16 2016 - 13:12
Miriam Lord: Labour’s gifts to the altar at manifesto launchWhiff of incense as party sets out its stall in former church at DIT GrangegormanTue Feb 16 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Why voters are not shifting on Valentine’s DayFine Gael election manifesto launched in docklands amid much media matchmakingMon Feb 15 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Can Ross’s ‘non-party’ win some true believers?The Independent Alliance wanted to nail down the unstable door before the horse boltedSat Feb 13 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Martin blossoms as colleagues shrink to wallflowersIf FF leader was in our faces any more than he is now he would face headbutting chargesFri Feb 12 2016 - 16:31
Miriam Lord: Small parties get on their high stoolsSocial Democrats launch in a whiskey museum, while Greens strangely choose a red busThu Feb 11 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Gerry has answers but not for the questionsGangland killings have shifted election focus away from where Sinn Féin wants itWed Feb 10 2016 - 09:01
Miriam Lord: Enda’s fairytale visit to south DublinSome Dundrum mothers were not impressed at being asked to pipe down during the eventTue Feb 09 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Ballot Capers as Flynn feels love from CreightonA sideways look at the election campaignMon Feb 08 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Adams among familiar initials at RIA launchWhatever about the letters, the Shinners had the fiscal space maths correctSat Feb 06 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Martin escapes behind the counter to avoid ‘coalition-ology’ talkAfter talking at length about polls, Fianna Fáil leader refuses to talk about pollsFri Feb 05 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Breathless Enda is gone in 60 secondsOpposition leaders knocked for six by the wash churning in Kenny’s wakeWed Feb 03 2016 - 21:08
Plenty of parking as Enda goes boldly into fiscal spaceMiriam Lord: ‘Don’t make unnecessary promises,’ Teresa Mannion could shout as election loomsWed Feb 03 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Lacklustre Burton fails even to attract protestersHeavy security but no hint of the ‘forest of placards’ predicted by Gilmore five years agoMon Feb 01 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Lucky escape as FG poster is liquidatedA gasp-inducing poster, Eamon Gilmore dances while Enda Kenny orbits on campaignSat Jan 30 2016 - 07:33
Miriam Lord: Micheál Martin begs for just a little more timeFianna Fáil leader stutters in the Dáil but there’s no sign of dissolving from KennyThu Jan 28 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach drops hints as Dáil’s end nears‘The telescope is beginning to shorten,’ Enda Kenny tells HouseWed Jan 27 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Dr Reilly gives Fine Gael a repeat prescriptionDeputy leader James Reilly tries to persuade party he is on to a winning storyMon Jan 25 2016 - 00:00
Miriam Lord: How Enda Kenny got Joe’s full attentionTaoiseach hits the Davos road with Nobel prizewinning US economist Joseph StiglitzSat Jan 23 2016 - 07:35
Miriam Lord: Talkative Mary has relationships with all sidesGiddy politicians are getting more and more difficult to control in dying days of this DáilThu Jan 21 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kelly talks up baths after pouring EU gravyAnger as TDs are convinced FAI’s John Delaney was canvassing for his pal Alan KellyWed Jan 20 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Polls finally close for ‘man of substance’ PJ MaraPolitical, media and business figures bid farewell to FF’s ‘showtime’ spin doctorSun Jan 17 2016 - 09:06
Miriam Lord: PJ Mara was a charming, disarming spin doctorThe FF strategist gave the impression he found the whole political thing a bit of a larkSat Jan 16 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny left buoyant by Harris’s hand of GodTaoiseach floats on as Opposition attempts to bog him down in Shannon’s murky watersThu Jan 14 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Predictions, promises and pratfalls for 2016FF are shaken, not stirred, by 007 O’Dea while FG cobble a government togetherSat Jan 02 2016 - 07:44
