House not private for drowned Leinster House fox as TDs serve up groundhog day of Dáil sniping‘It seems the last shower did damn all because they were too busy preparing for the general election, but new boy Micheál wouldn’t know anything about that’Wed Jun 18 2025 - 06:00
A mystery VIP Leinster House guest revealed and a visit from Charles and CamillaFormer children’s show presenter Timmy Mallett has been cycling around Ireland in memory of his late brother, and recently met Micheál Martin in CorkSat Jun 14 2025 - 06:00
Phantom cigarette puffer of Merrion Street prompts chortles in DáilTaoiseach Micheál Martin spots Minister – who had supposedly quit – smoking outside amid proposal to make Leinster House a tobacco-free zoneWed Jun 11 2025 - 21:59
Micheál pummelled from all sides over Government’s latest plan to ease rental crisisAs the Taoiseach batted away criticism of Coalition’s rent reforms, he may have asked himself, ‘what would the king of Jordan do?’ Wed Jun 11 2025 - 06:00
Only the introduction of Tina’s maiden name could stir a response from ‘monster’ Richard SatchwellRichard Satchwell’s self-centred delusion still had capacity to surprise after a five week trialWed Jun 04 2025 - 20:59
Miriam Lord’s week: Influencer Richie Herlihy’s foul-mouthed review of Dáil restaurant leaves a bad tasteRichie Herlihy met none of the TDs he wouldn’t get along with, but if he had, he would have given them a piece of his mindSat May 31 2025 - 06:00
Hacks in Montrose must be hallucinating about much greenery in their rundown newsroomQuestions about the €3.5m IT fiasco, ‘groupthink’ and that promo ad didn’t match the roasting of two years ago over TubsgateThu May 29 2025 - 06:00
A mother who refused to take no for an answer - for 13 years, 9 months and 20 daysNearly 14 years after Shane O’Farrell’s needless death, the Minister of Justice presents a public apology Wed May 28 2025 - 06:00
Dismay among RTÉ staffers as broadcaster hires actors to play journalists in ‘make-believe’ ad campaignFor God’s sake don’t tell Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan about thisSat May 24 2025 - 06:00
‘Repulsive’; ‘obscene’; ‘genocide’: Dáil voices rise in unison over Israel’s slaughter in GazaSinn Féin leader gets short shrift from Taoiseach in row over Central Bank’s Israeli war bonds issuesThu May 22 2025 - 06:00
It’s a strange day in the Dáil when a schoolgirl makes the Government squirm with embarrassmentCara Darmody made her presence felt as Taoiseach signalled intention to tackle delays for children awaiting assessmentWed May 21 2025 - 06:00
It’s been like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds on Merrion Street since the sun started to shineMooney Goes Wild should do a programme from Leinster HouseSat May 17 2025 - 06:00
Sinn Féin’s ‘Mr Angry’ meets immovable object that is MicheálMartin has measure of Pearse Doherty and Co as Dáil standoff continues over delayed report into children’s hip surgeryThu May 15 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Hip operations uproar leaves Taoiseach in a bindMicheál Martin was concerned enough about impending draft report to say ‘the implications are disturbing’Wed May 14 2025 - 06:00
Never mind the new pope, who’s going to replace Liveline’s spiritual leader, Joe Duffy?Michael McDowell coy at book launch, Bertie gives state-of-the-world address and Mark Daly feels the heatSat May 10 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: The cardinals wore frousers. Sure why can’t the girleens wear skorts?The outcry over the camogie skorts rule made its way from the pitch to the plinth, and ultimately on to the floor of the DáilThu May 08 2025 - 06:01
A tsar has not been born and they need to get this tshitshow off the roadJames Browne talks up his A-Team, TDs watch the pros in action while Pa Daly delights in saying nothingSat May 03 2025 - 06:00
The proposed housing tsar may look like a mild-mannered banker but is, in reality, a lethal killing machineOnly one man can ruthlessly deliver and scale up like a mutant amphibious accountant in the country’s drainsThu May 01 2025 - 06:00
Gerry Adams takes jurors in his defamation case against BBC on a very long stroll down memory laneFormer Sinn Féin leader describes formative years in 1960s Belfast to High Court in DublinTue Apr 29 2025 - 22:17
Miriam Lord’s Easter awards: Best Varadkar tribute act, Jemser balance respected and outstanding Dáil dust-up From the Burke family to Mattie McGrath and Michael Lowry, here are the winners of Miriam Lord's Easter awardsSat Apr 19 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Plot twists and U-turns at a crunch meeting in Washington While Simon Harris waited for the US commerce secretary, Donald Trump was announcing a pause on tariffs Sat Apr 12 2025 - 06:00
When is a Soc Dem TD not a Soc Dem TD?Kerfuffle over the exact status of Eoin Hayes provided light relief on a doomy day of worry about tariffs and the economyThu Apr 10 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Normal hostilities set aside as colleagues wish Richard Boyd Barrett wellA rare stillness fell on the chamber as TDs and Ministers wished Richard Boyd Barrett well following his cancer diagnosisWed Apr 09 2025 - 06:00
Shades of an Oasis love-in as Lucinda rolls with Fine Gael’s Gallagher brothersQuite the occasion for Christine Lagarde, as Paschal Donohoe reacts to Trump’s tough tariffs wondering ‘what we can do that can unite us’Sat Apr 05 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: The drama of the Opposition’s walkout lost its potency when government backbenchers also bailedA few Government buckeroos squawked their disapproval as Mary Lou and her boys made for the double doors to the right of VeronaThu Apr 03 2025 - 06:00
Trump’s tariffs take wrecking ball to perfectly good Dáil rowCeann Comhairle went to Dunne and Crescenzi during debate, but this was never going to be her last supperWed Apr 02 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: With Verona under fire, TDs suddenly realise they are gravely concerned about misogyny after allGovernment deputies develop a nose for the ‘m’ word in the nick of time as Ceann Comhairle is barracked by OppositionSat Mar 29 2025 - 06:00
Verona Murphy going nowhere as Dáil warring factions dig inHostilities resumed - quietly - on Wednesday over speaking rights row, with grim-faced TDs glowering across the chamberThu Mar 27 2025 - 06:00
Michael Lowry gives masterclass in smug ingratitude amid Dáil chaos over speaking timeTwo-digit TD for Tipperary gloated dismissively as Opposition raged over Ceann Comhairle’s decision to bring Dáil confrontation over speaking rights to abrupt endWed Mar 26 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Sharon Keogan ‘our maga woman in the Seanad now known as Agent Orange’The Independent Senator tried to blag her way in to the White House as the Upper House’s chief Trump cheerleader Sat Mar 22 2025 - 06:00
Taoiseach’s Oval Office whirl goes pear-shaped as Sinn Féin leader rounds on himMicheál Martin accused of ‘sniggering’ at Ireland’s housing crisis and dodging Gaza issue during White House audience with TrumpThu Mar 20 2025 - 06:00
Tech bros at war as Web Summit founders arrive at High CourtOn one level, it all sounds very complicated. On the other, it’s the age-old story of a once-exciting marriage ending in acrimony and a major row over who keeps the dogWed Mar 19 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Maga senator Sharon Keogan would only love to take Taoiseach’s place at shamrock jamboreeIndependent senator wrote to the White House seeking a St Patrick’s Day inviteSat Mar 08 2025 - 06:00
Will Micheál Martin man up and give man-baby Trump a good talking-to? Everybody has an opinion on what Taoiseach should say to US president during his upcoming visit to the White HouseThu Mar 06 2025 - 06:00
Micheál Martin urged to step back from the precipice and warned of ‘uncharted waters’Opposition groups have still not got over ‘the Document of Destruction’Wed Mar 05 2025 - 06:00
Charlie Haughey was framed and then he disappeared. But soon the mystery was solved Micheál Martin was thrilled although for a while it looked like there’d been a drastic rewriting of historySat Mar 01 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach erupts at Sinn Féin lecturing others about doing the right thing while canonising IRA slaytriotsCeann Comhairle tells Micheál Martin to stop carrying on like a child following goading by Pearse Doherty over Michael LowryThu Feb 27 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: We are not ones to gossip. But wait till you hear this‘It’s all rather embarrassing. People are talking and not in a good way’Wed Feb 26 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Verona Murphy needs help understanding Micheál Martin, but does he know what he said himself? The latest wheeze to appease Regional Independent TDs has further riled Opposition, and mystery surrounds a mooted Linda Martin presidencySat Feb 22 2025 - 06:00
They seek him here. They seek him there. The Wexford Pimpernel James Browne Richard Boyd-Barrett asks why the Minister ‘didn’t bother his backside’ to turn up for two debates in a rowThu Feb 20 2025 - 06:00
Verona Murphy is swinging her mallet in the Dáil like Wexford’s answer to ThorAllow them a little latitude and next minute it’s wholesale ructions and we’re disgraced in front of the worldWed Feb 19 2025 - 06:00
Harsh to blame Verona Murphy after Micheál Martin ignites slow-burning brouhaha Call for elite squad of Ministers to be taught to watch their tongues before targetting Donald Trump in Operation BlarneySat Feb 15 2025 - 06:00
It took a while for Mary Lou to register Micheál’s comment, then SF began to spontaneously combust Taoiseach accused of sneaking a cúpla focal under Ceann Comhairle’s noseThu Feb 13 2025 - 06:00
Deliverance almost at hand for Coalition’s overdue triplets after Michael D summons the SeanadDetails of exactly when Upper House meets on Wednesday remain sketchy, perhaps in an attempt at crowd controlWed Feb 12 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Who’s that brave England supporter among the guests of the Six Nations? Ireland-England game brought the great and good to the Aviva, including a former British PMSat Feb 08 2025 - 06:12
Miriam Lord: Danny Healy-Rae a lonely figure as Roaring Independents splitDanny Healy-Rae goes solo on Opposition benches after the old band breaks up, and watches his brother Michael hurry around the Government benchesThu Feb 06 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: ‘What hold does Michael Lowry have over them?’ - the question everyone is askingNo one can figure out why Micheál Martin and Simon Harris are going out on a limb despite his controversial past and divisive Dáil presenceSat Feb 01 2025 - 06:00
Unveiling of new junior Ministers underlines Dáil sausage-fest Women junior Ministers were placed in the front row at the Leinster House photocall but it fooled no one, as just six of the 23 appointees are womenThu Jan 30 2025 - 06:00
Great purge of Parnell Square turned out to be weak Milk of Magnesia effort in the endReports of a major clear-out were greatly exaggerated. The party’s frontbench looks very familiarWed Jan 29 2025 - 06:00
The Michael Lowry issue is still unresolved and may escalate. GUBU’s the word for it‘Unprecedented’ is overused, but even veterans were hard-pressed to find another way on Wednesday to describe the chaotic scenes in the DáilSat Jan 25 2025 - 06:00
