Agent Cobalt slips off the radar as the truth comes dropping slow from Sinn FéinTaoiseach and his wife celebrate his birthday by going to see the musical Hamilton, which contains the perfect chorus for a young and hungry leader on the brink of his first general electionSat Oct 19 2024 - 06:00
Ireland is transfixed by the disappearance of a giant of the Golden Age of Sinn FéinBrian Stanley has gone missing in the political undergrowth, despite noble efforts to find him by media search partiesThu Oct 17 2024 - 06:00
Mary Lou lauds Sinn Féin’s peerless HR procedures as scandals mountSo why is Mary Lou announcing ‘a complete overhaul’ of these same governance procedures? An abundance of caution or an abundance of caught-out?Wed Oct 16 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Fine Gael’s poster boys undercut party message on timing of electionThe temperature is rising in Leinster House: telltale signs of a late November election are mounting, despite the denialsSat Oct 12 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Spy hunt has Senators laughing their heads off on Day of the CackleRightly or wrongly, one name was on everyone’s lipsThu Oct 10 2024 - 06:00
‘Agent Cobalt’ fills role of Banquo’s ghost as Oireachtas amuses itselfDeputies and senators address each other as ‘comrade’ in corridors as speculation continues about Oireachtas member allegedly recruited as a Russian agentWed Oct 09 2024 - 06:00
Mary O’Rourke, in the thick of it again – only this time, for the last timeForty years in politics. A trailblazer. When she arrived in Leinster House in 1981, she wasn’t ‘just there to make up the numbers’, says Micheál MartinMon Oct 07 2024 - 21:31
Miriam Lord’s Week: Consternation in the corridors of power as all on high election alertSinn Féin and the pricey phone pouches, being better than the ‘bloody Tories’ and the diplomacy of singing with 1990s heart-throb Peter AndreSat Oct 05 2024 - 06:00
Poll trolling and Sinn Féin baiting all in a day’s work for TaoiseachSimon Harris pained by assertions that his budget blowout was something other than a serious, sober annual financial statement with no ulterior motive lurking between the linesThu Oct 03 2024 - 06:00
We know the score as Bling Cycle shamelessly written to lift electoral spiritsBudget 2025: Chambers of Commerce Jack and Been-there-Donahoed-that Paschal cheerily served up a belly buster budget buffet for the votersWed Oct 02 2024 - 06:00
The Leinster Lawn bike shed of 1990s: Remember Haughey’s helipad?Plus: Leo unleashes his inner Shinner and throws a winners’ dinner and sang Dublin in the Rare Ould TimesSat Sept 28 2024 - 06:00
OPW’s penchant for wildly expensive lean-tos would put Kubla Khan to shameEven without the place going nuts about huts, there’s a heightened tension and general giddiness around Leinster HouseThu Sept 26 2024 - 06:00
Flippin’ ‘learnings’, they turn up like a bad penny whenever another billion is flushed down the panWhen under attack for the Children’s Hospital fiasco, Paschal Donohoe takes flak for Simon Harris - who is in New York - and pulls the word ‘learnings’ from the first aid boxWed Sept 25 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s week: Dáil return a damp squib as departure lounge fills with exiting TDs Taoiseach Simon Harris surprises Paschal Donohoe with chocolate gateau as youthful Minister for Public Expenditure celebrates milestone 50th birthdaySat Sept 21 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Expect back-pedalling as committees gear up to tackle the bonkers bicycle shed of Leinster LawnThe avant-mudgarde glass and steel erection is already shaping up to be a bucket-list destination for aficionados of Irish politicsThu Sept 19 2024 - 06:00
Daniel Wiffen sings and Kellie Harrington takes the biscuit at Irish Olympic homecoming Simon Harris sounded giddy with excitement as large crowds gathered at the GPOMon Aug 12 2024 - 21:40
Miriam Lord: Sixty years ago, the clerics denounced Edna O’Brien. On Saturday she was welcomed homeA flotilla of lake boats carried mourners to Holy Island, where the ‘brilliant, wild, soaring and indomitable’ Irish writer was laid to restSat Aug 10 2024 - 22:42
Kellie Harrington the gem of Diamond Park as crowd roars on their double Olympic championOlympics 2024: Dublin inner-city neighbourhood once more savours a stunning success by boxer Kellie Harrington on the world sporting stageWed Aug 07 2024 - 07:29
Finally apologetic, Derry O’Rourke’s now a paltry old man who doesn’t deserve to sleep at nightJudge Melanie Greally at Central Criminal Court praises rape survivor for her conduct amid O’Rourke’s trial and on her victim impact statement, confronting abuser with the consequences of his actionsThu Aug 01 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Not a dry eye in the house as final whistle sends Armagh supporters into orbitThere are always scenes of wild celebration in Croke Park when the winning county is crowned but the Orchard County fans were on another levelSun Jul 28 2024 - 21:44
Miriam Lord: Raymond Shorten is a dangerous liar. His sentencing did the State some serviceMr Justice Paul McDermott did the State some service when he sentenced the Dublin taxi driver to a total of 17 years for raping two defenceless womenThu Jul 25 2024 - 21:14
Miriam Lord: Swoosh! Down comes the guillotine, but controversial planning Bill is partially sparedDepending on one’s point of view, Minister for Housing’s landmark creation is either a dangerous folly or an architectural gemWed Jul 17 2024 - 21:53
Miriam Lord’s end of Dáil term awardsLooking back at the winners and losers of a term that was full of departures, arrivals, celebrations, apologies and the usual catfightsSat Jul 13 2024 - 06:00
Simon Harris and Mary Lou McDonald call a truce as State rushes to action over Tori Towey caseNo public prayer in the House, but private prayers for safe return of woman detained in DubaiThu Jul 11 2024 - 06:00
‘I won’t accept it!’ Dáil unifies around Michael Healy-Rae after emotional appeal over online abuseKerry TD’s mother ‘never said anything bad about any human being’, he told House - but she was still the subject of tauntsWed Jul 10 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Chambers puts his foot in it, while the Lord of the Dance makes Leinster House cameoMichael Flatley’s famous Feet of Flames should not to be confused with that long running Dáil Éireann production: Pants on FireSat Jul 06 2024 - 06:00
Another crime added to long list by GAAGoSimon Harris leaps to defence of Helen McEntee after Peader Tóibín decries ‘cynical nonsense’Thu Jul 04 2024 - 06:00
Girl power in the Dáil as ‘two very formidable politicians’ take centre stageCatherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall, two of the founders of the Social Democrats, take a bow as the third founder hides in plain sightWed Jul 03 2024 - 06:00
Fianna Fáil TDs rack up the air miles after recall from China junketParty had not cleared deputies for take-off, but James O’Connor flew straight back to Beijing after casting Dáil voteSat Jun 29 2024 - 06:00
Young Chambers of Commerce looked quite miserable during his installationTwo Fianna Fáil TDs ordered home from Beijing made it in time to see colleague welcomed to CabinetThu Jun 27 2024 - 06:00
We say never again. We voice outrage. We listen to the promises. Until the next timeSimon Harris made no secret of his anger at the way Natasha O’Brien had been treated. Might he really do something? He certainly talks the talkWed Jun 26 2024 - 06:00
Michael Collins banished but Enda Kenny welcomed back to Taoiseach’s office for Harris visitHugs between old allies in Government Buildings but friction is building in another Blueshirt bastionSat Jun 22 2024 - 06:00
Roderic O’Gorman is out suspiciously fast with a video he prepared earlierNerve-jangling continues amid much-changed Dáil but sense of pre-prepped choreography to some of the political danceThu Jun 20 2024 - 06:00
Three-cornered stool comes crashing down after another quiet quittingThe Government will runs its course, promised Micheál once more, with feeling. But the Greens have pulled the window downWed Jun 19 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s week: Election talk gathers pace as victorious athletes demonstrate how to pass the batonA year on from Tubsgate was discussed at British ambassador’s get-together before Harris makes a dash to CastlebarSat Jun 15 2024 - 06:00
Roaring rural TDs came looking for Dáil insults and Simon Harris didn’t let them downThe Roaring Independents are the unwhipped cream of Irish politics, proudly refusing to take orders from anybodyThu Jun 13 2024 - 06:43
As Sinn Féin wallows in the ballot box blues, Harris does not need any Mary Lou-splainingA return of the Dáil brought back the Punch and Judy show, with politicians across the floor delighted as Shinners winced and wailedWed Jun 12 2024 - 06:00
Amid the success of Fianna Fáil’s Billy Barrys, Micheál Martin is in the grip of post-victory deliriumLooming byelections? Bring ‘em on, boy. The Tánaiste is happy with everything, while count staff, political staff and observers try to preserve sanityTue Jun 11 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Mary Lou McDonald is the chief mourner at RDS as local elections throw up an unexpected resultLocal and European elections: Taoiseach Simon Harris does lap of honour at count centre as Sunday’s tale of two parties came with an ending neither was expectingMon Jun 10 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s elections: Highs, lows and awards from the campaignThis year’s contests offered an entertaining cast with a ballot box in one hand and hammy promotional videos in the otherSat Jun 08 2024 - 06:00
Change in the air on Moore Street as candidates get a frosty reception from stallholdersLocal and European elections: Canvassing with People Before Profit’s Bríd Smith and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, you can sense a cooler atmosphere, and Sinn Féin is certainly no longer flavour of the monthThu Jun 06 2024 - 06:00
Pier-to-pier politicking as Simon Harris parades his personality along Dublin’s coastDún Laoghaire, Glasthule and Howth afford the Taoiseach a chance to take the sea air ahead of the electionsMon Jun 03 2024 - 06:00
Abs fab on the canvass as Richard Bruton goes topless to attract votesCould Fine Gael be exploiting the most famous nipples in Dublin Bay North to deliver a seat in Europe and local elections?Sat Jun 01 2024 - 06:00
Putin crack ignites fireworks before Simon Harris gets turkey and ham for beating a lettuce Seán Fleming’s withdrawal was a mealy-mouthed effortThu May 30 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: ‘Sometimes there are no adjectives left’: No dissenting voices as Dáil rubber-stamps decision to recognise PalestineThroughout the day, a steady stream of people arrived in Merrion Street to capture an image of the Palestinian flag flying outside the Irish parliamentWed May 29 2024 - 06:00
Irish envoy’s UK election bet comes in at 9/1Sky’s Kay Burley reckoned election would be called in November, but Irish ambassador Martin Fraser was on the buttonSat May 25 2024 - 06:00
‘You’re wrong, you’re wrong’ - Simon Harris equipped with bar charts leaves Sinn Féin rivals reelingIt was a bit rich for Mary Lou McDonald to complain about rent supports when her party had often called for spending to be increased, he saidThu May 23 2024 - 06:00
Darragh O’Brien dazzles Dáil with his best housing figures - but don’t mention the leakMinister got Housing Commission report ‘just 13 days ago’ and was not ready to talk about it quite yetWed May 22 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: AI Paschal vs TikTok Ava offers a portal into modern mannersMinister made deepfake photos of himself to highlight issue of identity theft, but got caught in a transatlantic spat over rude behaviour at the PortalSat May 18 2024 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Our national supercomputer is gone, we miss her loads, and the global scientific community is laughing at usWith a computer called K gone from our lives since November, Ireland has a mortifying void in its mega-machine armouryThu May 16 2024 - 06:00
