Miriam Lord

A complicated case about memos flying around government offices explaining how to lawfully do unfortunate divils out of their few bob becomes completely bewildering

‘Some people are laughing at me,’ Varadkar tells Dáil, responding to allegations State diddled people out of refunds for nursing home fees

Lisa Chambers in a dither, Sinn Féin with a softened cough, and a pair of Senators who wouldn’t take ‘ladies, please’ for an answer

Paschal undergoes an intensive course of donation regression therapy

Michael Stone’s statement on Tuesday morning took the heat out of the election expenses controversy

Barry Cowen started off by saying very nice things about Paschal. Then moved on to say even nicer things

Minister appeared to be fuming about having to make another Dáil statement. Was it with himself? Or the Opposition?

In his first Leaders’ Questions as newly installed Taoiseach, Varadkar sticks up for his beleaguered Minister over 2016 election poster expenses

Department store’s abrupt closing, leaving hundreds out of work with only basic redundancy, left a sour taste

Who dug themselves into a hole this year? And who ploughed ahead regardless? We’ve got the winners and losers

Fianna Fáil leader airs his greatest hits while Mary Lou McDonald points to his hall of Shame

From canteen chaos, Wallace’s wine and cheese party to Mountjoy matches, it was a busy week in politics

If 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 reshuffle

Leaders’ 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’ time

Three clerics were on hand to bless the bales of straw - one nearly decanted the holy water over Heather Humphreys