Miriam Lord: Flinty Dáil heavyweights crumble before boss baby CollinsCeann Comhairle the milk of Dáil kindness; politicians run the gauntlen of Ploughing; Taoiseach’s US U-turn; Heather’s pension plan; Limerick’s roaring Richard; and essays on the future of democracySat Sept 24 2022 - 04:00
Miriam Lord: Welly-waving politicians fight for attention at the PloughingMEPs paraded around Ploughing as fonts of knowledge about EU farm payments and form fillingThu Sept 22 2022 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Mary Lou ploughs into Taoiseach with her Trojan horse metaphorParty accuses Government of sneaking in a retirement age of 70, but Micheál’s having none of this manure businessTue Sept 20 2022 - 22:22
Miriam Lord’s Week: Jetsetting Senators risk the wrath of China over Taiwan Irish Senators among those attending Washington DC summit on how to approach China - and the Chinese are not amusedSat Sept 17 2022 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Good start to new Dáil season for Mary Lou as she is made taoiseach for 10 secondsSinn Féin TDs are cock-a-hoop as Ceann Comhairle, a little ring-rusty after the long summer break, gets his leaders mixed upWed Sept 14 2022 - 22:02
Miriam Lord: Mary Lou makes an epic entrance at Sinn Féin think-inStanding beneath a triumphal arch, the SF leader promised to throw the kitchen sink at the cost-of-living crisisTue Sept 13 2022 - 22:01
Miriam Lord: Fianna Fáil serves up awkward doughnuts at Mullingar think-inPresence of Robert Troy at Taoiseach’s side makes for uncomfortable start to annual think-inMon Sept 12 2022 - 22:03
Miriam Lord: Question of succession a burning issue at Fine Gael’s think-inFG’s first big set-piece of the new Dáil season ends up like a scene from Upstairs Downstairs rather than a political meeting of the mindsFri Sept 09 2022 - 21:55
Miriam Lord: Brendan Bowyer still sends them home sweatin’ as Waterford bids farewell to the ‘Irish Elvis’Ceremony to celebrate showbiz legend was not an occasion for dancing in the aisles, but he sent ‘em home sweatin’ anywayWed Aug 03 2022 - 21:58
Miriam Lord: On Ladies’ Day at the Galway Races, Ballybrit is the fake tan capital of the worldOlder racegoers are thin on the ground this year, but the young crowd galloped around in their taffeta and feathers, glad for the chance to step outThu Jul 28 2022 - 22:47
Miriam Lord: Nearly €3.5m already raised. And Charlie Bird’s not finished yetCharlie Bird presents the proceeds of his Climb with Charlie fundraising event to the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association and PietaTue Jul 26 2022 - 21:55
Miriam Lord: From Irish pride to Isis bride, we have not heard the last of the Lisa Smith storyA 15-month sentence for the sister of Islamic State who joined the terrorist organisation with “eyes wide open” and has never shown remorse for her actionsSat Jul 23 2022 - 00:07
Miriam Lord’s end-of-term awards: The best and worst of the cribbers, ditherers and hitmenSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald emerges as Politician of the Season, touring the world like she is already in chargeSat Jul 16 2022 - 02:07
Miriam Lord: British ambassador drinks in the glorious banality of a morning in the Dáil chamber Taoiseach expresses faint hope that Boris Johnson’s departure might signal a ‘renewal of relations’ with UKWed Jul 13 2022 - 22:15
TDs served up a steaming vat of political cliche to mark arrival of two-month summer breakTánaiste Leo Varadkar wound up the no confidence debate saying Sinn Féin have made a tactical error with their ‘deeply cynical and nakedly political’ motionTue Jul 12 2022 - 22:37
Miriam Lord’s week: G7 enjoys horseback circus in Alps before Taoiseach joins in for Madrid Talking of pecs, perhaps Micheál should invite Vladimir Putin to Courtmacsharry for the annual New Year’s Day swimSat Jul 02 2022 - 04:00
Miriam Lord: Militantly bland Michael McGrath bravely brushes off budget beggingOne almost feels sorry for Opposition TDs when they have to face the accountant from CorkWed Jun 29 2022 - 21:51
Miriam Lord: Martin plays innocent as end-of-term homework piles up on President’s deskTaoiseach blames long-winded TDs for repeat of last-minute legislative dump, criticised by Higgins last yearTue Jun 28 2022 - 22:01
Miriam Lord’s week: ‘Jesus Christ, I don’t know where all the billions are going to come from’Major ball hopping from Aontú's Peadar Toibin who managed to get Simon Covenvey’s hackles upSat Jun 25 2022 - 04:00
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach does ‘I’m a Little Teapot’ as talk of stagflation turns to fatcatflationHopes high that Leo and Pearse will feature on Katie Kaylor undercard at Croke ParkWed Jun 22 2022 - 22:13
Miriam Lord: Marking of Austin Currie’s legacy prompts return of Enda Kenny to Leinster HouseTánaiste Leo Varadkar led tributes in the Dáil to Currie as one of the 'great pioneers of peace, change and non-violence on our island'Tue Jun 21 2022 - 21:38
Miriam Lord: Venomous Varadkar finds Sinn Féin’s poor mouth a bit richTánaiste tears into Pearse Doherty as the cost-of-living wars heat upSat Jun 18 2022 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: First Citizen on the verge of going full-blown Michael DPresident lets loose on the housing ‘disaster’, to the delight of Opposition politicians and the dismay of Government MinistersWed Jun 15 2022 - 21:51
Miriam Lord: Boris becomes the latest atrocity to unite the DáilProtocol debate in Dáil full of hard-hitting and combative language not heard since the row over turfWed Jun 15 2022 - 00:57
Miriam Lord: Bertie’s swagger is back as the old guard stage a rebellionParking protocol high on the agenda as retired TDs and senators meet for first time since pandemicSat Jun 04 2022 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: International Man of Travel Dalton Philips comes back down to earth with a bumpDAA head was grilled by Oireachtas committee over last weekend’s Dublin Airport fiascoThu Jun 02 2022 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: The airport crisis that fell out of the skyDublin Airport was a shambles back in March, too, but we were told things had much improvedTue May 31 2022 - 21:25
Miriam Lord’s Week: Dramatic quiz livens up a quiet few daysQuiznight raises money for Red Cross while Newsnight fails to roast TaoiseachSat May 28 2022 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Sinn Féin rest Mary Lou as substitute Pearse Doherty strikes againDeputy deputy Doherty was out to impress the visiting Shinners from Stormont by giving the Government a good ear-bashingThu May 26 2022 - 07:21
Miriam Lord: Outbreak of political monkey pox as biggest organ-grinders in the Dáil go missingLeo and Micheál were on a mission to butter up the billionaires in DavosTue May 24 2022 - 19:54
Miriam Lord’s Week: Sinn Féin’s acrobatic motion mesmerises NaughtenTwo Green scalps and Government blushes more valuable to SF than ineffectual motionSat May 21 2022 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: A pyrrhic victory for the Roaring Socialist RuralistsMattie McGrath and Richard Boyd Barrett couple up to force a vote on NMH motionWed May 18 2022 - 22:16
Miriam Lord: Micheál repeats his version of the Penneys humblebrag‘Three hundred years at a tenner!’ Taoiseach cried, as he brooks no dissent on maternity hospitalTue May 17 2022 - 21:15
Miriam Lord: Strange case of the mayor and the maternity hospitalFF TD reveals a line of former Dublin lord mayors were also governors of Holles StreetSat May 14 2022 - 01:22
Miriam Lord: Suspicious minds told they just gotta have faith in maternity hospitalGovernment lines up clinicians and lawyers to allay fears of religious interferenceWed May 11 2022 - 22:25
Miriam Lord: Maternity hospital drama a turn-off for target audienceOngoing saga of the new National Maternity Hospital has a rather convoluted plotWed May 11 2022 - 02:00
Miriam Lord: Irish Times hack can shove his book where the sun don’t shineSickening display of geniality broke out between rival papers at pandemic book launchSat May 07 2022 - 03:00
Miriam Lord: Holohan and Watt Show blew into town but only one got a grillingTony, medic of the pandemic, was given the kid glove treatment. Robert, bureaucratic big cheese, got roastedWed May 04 2022 - 22:30
Miriam Lord: Peat promoters fume over Ford vans and Dáil waffleBusy week with wet turf and whip-arounds ends with a welcome break for the GreensSat Apr 30 2022 - 05:35
Miriam Lord: Green enemies of the turf don’t cut it with MattieThe Rural Independent was back bashing the Greens, a role that has served him wellWed Apr 27 2022 - 22:34
Miriam Lord: Government feels the heat as turf wars reignite in DáilRestraint was never going to catch on with all hell breaking loose over turf cutting rightsTue Apr 26 2022 - 22:33
Miriam Lord: Donohoe’s bookish reputation falls prey to false widow storyMinister makes toe-curling faux pas in exchange with Portuguese counterpartSat Apr 09 2022 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Zelenskiy skips the pleasantries as he addresses the DáilChamber listened in silence as Ukrainian president’s chilling words were relayedWed Apr 06 2022 - 22:21
Miriam Lord: It’s like Bridgerton as chaste Mary Lou scandalised by cad MicheálHeated exchange over carbon tax ends with Sinn Féin leader needing the smelling saltsTue Apr 05 2022 - 22:24
Miriam Lord’s Week: Leo’s Chinese lantern sparks security alert at Leinster HouseLuckily, Tánaiste was in Chile for Paddy’s Day when suspicious package arrivedSat Apr 02 2022 - 03:00
Miriam Lord: Micheál’s back on the yokes? That can’t be right‘They contain a thing called choline,’ says the Taoiseach. ‘Very good for brain function’Wed Mar 30 2022 - 21:17
Miriam Lord: As Taoiseach eggs him on, Mattie gets rasherPicking a breakfast roll battle with healthy Micheál is silly even by Dáil standardsTue Mar 29 2022 - 22:19
Miriam Lord’s Week: Virus surge sees Cabinet isolated in Covid CastleElsewhere, we were doing time on Bernard’s watch, and saw some political engagementSat Mar 26 2022 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Mary Lou not liking the sound of a united GovernmentMichael McGrath, standing in for absent Taoiseach, stays calm for Sinn Féin grillingWed Mar 23 2022 - 21:08
Miriam Lord: Angry Varadkar calls out Healy-Rae as Kerry TD goes on the offensiveTánaiste's outrage is far from manufactured as he asks Michael Healy-Rae to reflect on commentTue Mar 22 2022 - 22:57
