Miriam Lord: Taoiseach drops hints as Dáil’s end nears‘The telescope is beginning to shorten,’ Enda Kenny tells HouseWed Jan 27 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Dr Reilly gives Fine Gael a repeat prescriptionDeputy leader James Reilly tries to persuade party he is on to a winning storyMon Jan 25 2016 - 00:00
Miriam Lord: How Enda Kenny got Joe’s full attentionTaoiseach hits the Davos road with Nobel prizewinning US economist Joseph StiglitzSat Jan 23 2016 - 07:35
Miriam Lord: Talkative Mary has relationships with all sidesGiddy politicians are getting more and more difficult to control in dying days of this DáilThu Jan 21 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kelly talks up baths after pouring EU gravyAnger as TDs are convinced FAI’s John Delaney was canvassing for his pal Alan KellyWed Jan 20 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Polls finally close for ‘man of substance’ PJ MaraPolitical, media and business figures bid farewell to FF’s ‘showtime’ spin doctorSun Jan 17 2016 - 09:06
Miriam Lord: PJ Mara was a charming, disarming spin doctorThe FF strategist gave the impression he found the whole political thing a bit of a larkSat Jan 16 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny left buoyant by Harris’s hand of GodTaoiseach floats on as Opposition attempts to bog him down in Shannon’s murky watersThu Jan 14 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Predictions, promises and pratfalls for 2016FF are shaken, not stirred, by 007 O’Dea while FG cobble a government togetherSat Jan 02 2016 - 07:44
Miriam Lord’s 2015: From OMG to OMFG in 12 monthsThe year saw same-sex marriage vote pass while Coalition began to consider divorceTue Dec 29 2015 - 12:44
Miriam Lord: Charlie Bucket of politics wins golden ticketWhy John Perry shall go to the ball . . . or to the general election with Fine GaelWed Dec 23 2015 - 01:01
Miriam Lord: The pick of political winners from this year’s DáilHarris may be only about 14, but he has performed with a maturity on difficult issuesSat Dec 19 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: End-of-term fun until Halligan silences the ladsDáil Sketch: Sinn Féin’s health strategy gets a laugh, but there’s time for serious issuesThu Dec 17 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: What is Enda cooking up for January?Dáil sketch: No more news on the election but prepare to count calories in New YearWed Dec 16 2015 - 01:08
Miriam Lord’s Week: Willie O’Dea and the Phantom visitTD fails to secure Leinster House car parking place despite rolling up in Rolls-RoyceSat Dec 12 2015 - 05:45
Miriam Lord: Peter Mathews – martyr to standing ordersTDs watch in disbelief as serial interrupter fails to get ejected by Ceann ComhairleThu Dec 10 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Light mood brings good tidings between old foesKenny and Martin put those pesky political differences aside in pursuit of festive cheerTue Dec 08 2015 - 22:04
Miriam Lord: Labour deputy renamed ‘Big Bawls’ KellyBirthday bash for Kevin Bakhurst makes big news at RTÉ, while price of carpet is soft issueSat Dec 05 2015 - 07:27
Miriam Lord: Enda promises not to make endless promisesDáil sketch: After years of short rations, the lid is off the national biscuit tinThu Dec 03 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Martin ready to rumble but Kenny ducking and divingStruggle in the interest of democracy and goes to . . . ‘heart of democratic revolution’Wed Dec 02 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Enda may have a date with St BrigidWhatever about Christmas, Leinster House is frozen by election speculationSat Nov 28 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: House slowly implodes in pre-election lullA quiet week leads to Lucinda Creighton being asked bizarre Hitler questionThu Nov 26 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Christmas is coming, Dáil’s goose is cookedDáil sketch: The 31st Dáil is a turkey. Stick a fork in it. It’s doneWed Nov 25 2015 - 01:04
Miriam Lord’s Week: Irish lads keep it cool in royal presenceTD Noel Coonan and Princess Anne have a great chat about horses over dinnerSat Nov 21 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny continues search for the perfect modelGerry Adams rechristened Fine Gael’s famous Five Point Plan the ‘Five Point Scam’Thu Nov 19 2015 - 01:00
Dáil sketch: a minute can be a long time in politicsBoth Houses of the Oireachtas observe minute’s silence as mark of respect to victims of attacks in ParisWed Nov 18 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Lack of answers no bar to Cahill’s electionShock and tears as 20 Senators and TDs fail to remember their own names for ballotSat Nov 14 2015 - 01:00
Chinese walls in Government Buildings don’t need bricks and mortarIt appears Enda put in some temporary partitions between himself and the MinisterThu Nov 12 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Pink ladies squeeze last mileage out of The GaysFrances Fitzgerald and Joan Burton fire starting gun for same-sex marital sprintWed Nov 11 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: All fur coat at FG’s fundraising bashComedian thinks the Taoiseach should know the full story about women’s bitsSat Nov 07 2015 - 01:02
Miriam Lord: Kenny’s decisiveness is winter’s first casualtyDoes Noonan say ‘I told you so’ every time he bumps into the Taoiseach in the corridor?Thu Nov 05 2015 - 01:00
Move over Jack Bauer – Enda’s got 48 hours to save usMiriam Lord: Like a double episode of 24, our superhero had to act fast to avert disasterWed Nov 04 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Denis O’Brien reveals the secrets of his successAt a special event in Jamaica, the visionary businessman finally spilled the beansSun Nov 01 2015 - 10:28
Miriam Lord: Ireland could learn from gay marriage Bill scrum‘It would have done the Argies proud, the way they ploughed into us,’ says Labour stalwartSat Oct 24 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: War of words over IRA’s army councilEnda and Micheál stand together as Sinn Féin fumesThu Oct 22 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: All remembered with love, laughter, sorrowWhile this was very much a Travellers’ funeral, many others paid their respectsWed Oct 21 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Fine Gael members driven away by legal threatDara Murphy ally prompts walk-out by threatening to sue Senator Burke for slanderSat Oct 17 2015 - 01:00
Two little girls walked into the crushing silence of a crowded churchyardInto the enveloping silence, the band played the funeral march for Garda Tony GoldenThu Oct 15 2015 - 21:01
Miriam Lord: Out of the swamp, onto the yellow brick roadHaving dragged Ireland back from the cliff, Kenny stopped for a rest at a fork in the roadThu Oct 15 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Grand day for the garda and nurse who met in CoppersBudget 2016: Noonan finds Ireland’s ‘lost purse’ and begins spending againWed Oct 14 2015 - 06:44
The Dáil diet: what are the Oireachtas eating?‘You go from meeting to meeting and end up grazing’: Well, Oireachtas dining has come a long way. Chips and the full Irish can still be had, but sometimes salad bar line is longer than one for meat and two veg. Miriam Lord explores the exclusive Members’ Restaurant and the open-to-the-plebs canteenSat Oct 10 2015 - 14:01
Miriam Lord: Sphinx-like Kenny whips up frenzyNear-hysteria grips Leinster House as announcement of election date is awaitedFri Oct 09 2015 - 21:03
Miriam Lord: Tight-lipped Taoiseach toys with mediaJoan Burton expects general election to happen in 2016Thu Oct 08 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Leinster House cocks crow for coy EndaSudden retreat from position of certainty on general election triggers fevered speculationWed Oct 07 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Beaming buddies promise us a Hollywood endingMinisters will be on message from now until the general election, so get used to itSat Oct 03 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Enda’s fix for shoddy building is in the worksMary Lou McDonald in fine form as she takes Taoiseach to task about Longboat QuayThu Oct 01 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Departure time for Enda and Joan’s gravy trainRecycled and rewarmed capital plan arrives from sidings in time for election campaignWed Sept 30 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Freshers get the Willies in FF puzzleFianna Fáil’s new game drums up great interest as party meets its match in SeanadSat Sept 26 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Politicians plough into photo opportunitiesKenny gets close to calendar-girl newsreader while Coveney cosies up to winsome pigletThu Sept 24 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny survives motion of no consequenceThe Fennelly report was quickly ditched by all speakers in favour of election speechesWed Sept 23 2015 - 01:00
