Miriam Lord’s week: Bertie Ahern is happy, he enjoys the attention. He misses itNews that the former taoiseach rejoined Fianna Fáil after quitting it 11 years ago before he was pushed by Micheál Martin greatly enlivened the political weekSat Feb 11 2023 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Bertie Ahern is back. What could possibly go wrong?The Return of Bartholomew offers a laugh to downbeat Dáil grinding its way through immigration issueWed Feb 08 2023 - 22:15
Brigid the Green takes her place among the founding fathersEamon Ryan makes a seasonal selection for a portrait alongside Collins and De Valera in Taoiseach’s officeSat Feb 04 2023 - 00:00
Miriam Lord: Leo executes slick hit-and-run on ministerial predecessorA complicated case about memos flying around government offices explaining how to lawfully do unfortunate divils out of their few bob becomes completely bewilderingWed Feb 01 2023 - 20:54
Miriam Lord: Leo leaves ‘em rolling in the aisles with perfect deadpan delivery‘Some people are laughing at me,’ Varadkar tells Dáil, responding to allegations State diddled people out of refunds for nursing home feesTue Jan 31 2023 - 21:23
Miriam Lord’s Week: Love is in the air in Seanad as politicians tie themselves in knotsLisa Chambers in a dither, Sinn Féin with a softened cough, and a pair of Senators who wouldn’t take ‘ladies, please’ for an answerSat Jan 28 2023 - 03:15
Miriam Lord: A very civil war breaks out over election expenses as parties realise truce is in everyone’s best interestsPaschal undergoes an intensive course of donation regression therapyWed Jan 25 2023 - 20:45
Miriam Lord: Was the famously, sometimes annoyingly, even-tempered Paschal Donohoe finally going to lose his rag?Michael Stone’s statement on Tuesday morning took the heat out of the election expenses controversyTue Jan 24 2023 - 22:17
Miriam Lord’s Week: Bruiser Barry’s sensible response to Paschal furore leaves Claire Byrne at a lossBarry Cowen started off by saying very nice things about Paschal. Then moved on to say even nicer thingsSat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: If Paschal Donohoe falls, the whole house of cards of this Government falls with himMinister appeared to be fuming about having to make another Dáil statement. Was it with himself? Or the Opposition?Thu Jan 19 2023 - 21:10
Miriam Lord: Opposition tears strips off poster boy Paschal as Dáil resumesIn his first Leaders’ Questions as newly installed Taoiseach, Varadkar sticks up for his beleaguered Minister over 2016 election poster expensesWed Jan 18 2023 - 20:47
Miriam Lord: Clerys’ reopening felt more like a corporate process designed to draw veil over closure that broke Dublin’s heart Department store’s abrupt closing, leaving hundreds out of work with only basic redundancy, left a sour tasteTue Jan 17 2023 - 18:46
Miriam Lord’s Annual Political Awards 2022Who dug themselves into a hole this year? And who ploughed ahead regardless? We’ve got the winners and losersSat Dec 24 2022 - 07:00
Miriam Lord: Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin play the regeneration game in worst ever episode of Doctor WhoFianna Fáil leader airs his greatest hits while Mary Lou McDonald points to his hall of ShameSun Dec 18 2022 - 21:09
Lack of knives in Kildare Street won’t stop the back-stabbing when Leo hands out the jobsFrom canteen chaos, Wallace’s wine and cheese party to Mountjoy matches, it was a busy week in politicsSat Dec 17 2022 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Stephen Donnelly’s ministerial career is sitting up in bed and having a soft boiled eggIf your breath is bated for the changing of the guard this weekend, the bad news is that you can expect a wee shuffle instead of a reshuffleWed Dec 14 2022 - 21:20
Miriam Lord: A smirk for Micheál Martin over Eamon Ryan’s icy wokenessLeaders’ Questions was the end of a significant chapter in Taoiseach’s long career and the beginning of what will be a historic handover in a few days’ timeTue Dec 13 2022 - 21:20
Miriam Lord: Patrick O’Donovan revels in role of Minister who saved live cribThree clerics were on hand to bless the bales of straw - one nearly decanted the holy water over Heather HumphreysSat Dec 10 2022 - 05:00
Norma in Paris as teaching career break bombshell leaves Opposition flabbergasted Department attempts to clear up confusion as to whether the Minister for Education plans to abolish herselfWed Dec 07 2022 - 19:53
Miriam Lord: No big showy balls in sight as Leinster Lawn lights up for ChristmasNo sign of the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Green leader either, but Mary Lou made it for the switching-on of the Oireachtas tree lightsTue Dec 06 2022 - 22:25
Miriam Lord’s week: The Oireachtas loves entertaining VIPs, from von der Leyen to ZelenskiyThursday night was just like heaven for Paschal Donohoe as he relived his youth at The Cure, while Ukraine’s president spoke in his constituencySat Dec 03 2022 - 00:00
Miriam Lord: HITSMISIFIT? Every Taoiseach needs a good catchphraseMicheál Martin has been trying very hard to fashion his own snappy sloganThu Dec 01 2022 - 05:31
Miriam Lord: Cribbing aplenty in the Dáil but no pleasing a discombobulated Mary LouFG was crowing about saving the live crib after Green grinch Caroline Conroy cancelled it, but Mary Lou McDonald still had plenty to crib aboutTue Nov 29 2022 - 22:15
Miriam Lord’s week: Big Phil rubs it in to the Brexiteers at London book launch Former EU commissioner was guest at launch of Stephen Collins’s book, along with Irish Ambassador Martin FraserSat Nov 26 2022 - 04:00
Slick property investors know loopholes are nothing like buses: miss one and another one arrives along almost immediatelyRent-paying people left facing eviction as Taoiseach says he will see what he can doWed Nov 23 2022 - 21:30
Miriam Lord: Matt Shanahan butters up the Taoiseach before delivering the sting in the tailBemused Taoiseach has ego massaged in attempt to twist his armTue Nov 22 2022 - 21:06
Open-armed welcomes for the new Governor of Massachusetts and a place on Putin’s naughty listA mortifying rush by politicians to proclaim their inclusion on Russia’s blacklist and a game of Where’s Micheál were among this week’s political highs and lowsSat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: It’s the most elite list in town, but who’s made it on to the Kremlin’s naughty steppe?Politicians feverishly checked their phones to see if their names were included in Russia’s bizarre blacklist of sanctioned Irish politiciansWed Nov 16 2022 - 22:09
Miriam Lord: Vicky Phelan wanted no tributes but they came, heartfelt and sincere, from all sides Death of woman who held the State to account prompts minute silence in DáilTue Nov 15 2022 - 21:19
Vicky Phelan: She didn’t want accolades or broken promises. Just action and changeMiriam Lord: Vicky’s work is far from done. Others have been inspired. They will do it now in her memoryMon Nov 14 2022 - 22:24
A Green on the golfing green blows political competition off courseFrancis Noel Duffy takes top prize in Oireachtas Golf Society’s annual Christmas hamper competitionSat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
Sausages are not the only food for thought in an angry DáilMicheál Martin’s admiring reverie about the fine pork produce of Carlow was eclipsed by Marc MacSharry’s latest angry outburstThu Nov 10 2022 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Mary Lou wraps herself in green as Sinn Féin morphs into eco warriorsTaoiseach’s unflappable stand-in Michael McGrath unperturbed as thundering McDonald delivers truncated edition of Lambast the LeaderTue Nov 08 2022 - 22:02
Miriam Lord: Mary Lou calls for change – just the 18 timesEveryone at Sinn Féin Ardfheis had great welcome for themselves – apart from the people attending a tattoo convention next doorSun Nov 06 2022 - 21:43
Miriam Lord’s Week: Politicians cry fowl as Green Grinch cancels live animal crib Mayor’s decision to shut down annual Christmas tableau at the Mansion House causes consternation all roundSat Oct 29 2022 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach’s all-night clubbing plan leaves Mattie McGrath in a spinNew extended hours ‘won’t impact on me’, says Micheál Martin, but rural TD reckons they’ll destroy the countryWed Oct 26 2022 - 22:00
Miriam Lord: The Ukrainian question sees Mary Lou and Micheál at daggers drawnNo punches pulled in the Dáil as Taoiseach accuses SF leader of ‘playing both sides’ on the issue of accommodating Ukrainian refugeesTue Oct 25 2022 - 21:35
Miriam Lord’s Week: Bacik dances herself dizzy with European socialistsPolitical partying in Berlin; trickle-down politics in Dáil; some more dancing around ‘Feis Fixing’; and Tory commemorative products give or take 404 errorsSat Oct 22 2022 - 05:30
Miriam Lord: Leinster House springs a leak as Taoiseach sings in the rainEvents in whacko Westminster cause a run on the markets, while best leaky Leinster House can manage is a run on bucketsWed Oct 19 2022 - 22:03
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach stands corrected on Sinn Féin with a feat of fast talkingMicheál Martin had to correct Dáil record after making inaccurate statement about Sinn Féin, so he got it over with in jig timeTue Oct 18 2022 - 22:10
Miriam Lord’s Week: Reliving the anorak years as Bertie Ahern launches Charlie Bird’s bookFormer taoiseach fondly remembers being ‘chased around the bloody country’ by former RTÉ journalistSat Oct 15 2022 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: End-to-end action in the Dáil as TDs jump on the Irish football bandwagonShane Ross, the State’s foremost political photobomber, presumably inconsolable after missing out on photo-op with the Girls in GreenWed Oct 12 2022 - 22:12
Miriam Lord: TDs balance lack of words for Creeslough with duty to speak‘Words on their own cannot comfort the fathomless grief that so many will feel in the weeks and months ahead’Tue Oct 11 2022 - 22:06
Miriam Lord: Book launch sees Seán O’Rourke untypically forthcoming in remarks about Mary Lou and SFTaoiseach Micheál Martin and former taoiseach John Bruton lead posse of high-profile guests at launch of Ireland’s Call: Navigating BrexitSat Oct 08 2022 - 04:00
Miriam Lord: Supersub Anne appointed minister for everything as Cabinet takes coverWith Ministers off jet-setting and TikTok-ing and what have you, it’s up to supersubs Anne Rabbitte and Mary Butler to answer Opposition questionsWed Oct 05 2022 - 21:00
Miriam Lord: Orwellian references fly as Taoiseach’s concrete levy goes down like a lead balloon Dáil Sketch: Micheál quotes from 1984, accusing Sinn Féin of ‘doublethink’, but Mary Lou is more of an Animal Farm girl herselfTue Oct 04 2022 - 21:37
Miriam Lord: Never mind all the politicians, actor James Nesbitt was the keynote address at Ireland’s Future eventLeo Varadkar briefly booed from one section of the crowd Ireland’s Future event but received respectful applause when he finishedSun Oct 02 2022 - 21:35
Ceann Comhairle on the mend after surgery for prostate cancerSeán Ó Fearghaíl urges men in their early 60s and younger to ‘go and have a routine blood test periodically’Sat Oct 01 2022 - 05:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Is a quote from Seamus Heaney now compulsory in Government speeches?Select invitations to a Green party, sporting events and calls for a second chamber of the Dáil to be established fill up the weekSat Oct 01 2022 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Principal McDonald puts budget bold boys in the cornerMary Lou’s trademark brand of perpetual indignation has become such a hackneyed act that it is now empty and meaninglessWed Sept 28 2022 - 22:30
