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
Miriam Lord: TDs fume over golden tickets to Varadkar’s birthday doWhatsApp group causes commotion in Cabinet as invitations to Taoiseach’s bash prove scarceSat Jan 19 2019 - 00:02
Miriam Lord: Leo comes up with a reply to put fear of God into everyoneLeo and Simon clearly do not want to say anything on what a no-deal Brexit will meanWed Jan 16 2019 - 22:19
Miriam Lord: Brexit’s high drama sees Ross feeling absent-mindedThe Minister for Stepaside and Hockey is nowhere to be seen as Dáil returnsTue Jan 15 2019 - 22:01
Miriam Lord unveils her political winners, losers and total eejits of 2018Journalist John Waters takes the Sex Pistols gong for services to swearingSat Dec 22 2018 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Totes awk as Leo and Eoghan drop in for chat in Dublin schoolTaoiseach exits Dáil for festive season as Wallace raises Irish Ferries announcementWed Dec 19 2018 - 22:08
Miriam Lord: Balaclava proves a red rag to bullish VaradkarLeo and Pearse lock horns in verbal scrape about eviction ‘incidents’ and afterwardsTue Dec 18 2018 - 22:10
Miriam Lord: Micheál Martin's notions prove to be wide of the MarcFF’s backbench baritone pleads with leader to abandon confidence-and-supply dealSat Dec 15 2018 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Confidence and supply? More like Two Men and a GNUIf not for the sake of baby Brexit, he would be out of the relationship in a heartbeatWed Dec 12 2018 - 21:51
Miriam Lord: Journalists can breathe easy with Boris on the caseBrexiteer tells reporters in Loughinisland case he will leave (almost) no stone unturnedSat Dec 08 2018 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: It’s like the abortion referendum never happenedMattie McGrath blew a gasket at suggestions he might have been filibusteringWed Dec 05 2018 - 21:34
Miriam Lord: Leo misses switching the lights on after the Kylie excitementDiary clashes saw the Treeseach miss the festive tradition after non-existent concert mealTue Dec 04 2018 - 21:58
