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Miriam Lord: ‘Taoiseach, do you do a weekly shop?’ It’s not even funny to think about
Imagine Micheál Martin doing your weekly shop? He’d refuse to look at a biscuit, the house would be awash with broccoli and you’d die for the want of a cheese-and-onion crisp
‘Ceann Comhairle, how long is this going to continue?’: Dáil interruptions starting to wreck Taoiseach’s head
Verona Murphy is not for extending response time despite interruptions much to Martin’s annoyance
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’
Phantom cigarette puffer of Merrion Street prompts chortles in Dáil
Taoiseach Micheál Martin spots Minister – who had supposedly quit – smoking outside amid proposal to make Leinster House a tobacco-free zone
Micheál pummelled from all sides over Government’s latest plan to ease rental crisis
As the Taoiseach batted away criticism of Coalition’s rent reforms, he may have asked himself, ‘what would the king of Jordan do?’
Hacks in Montrose must be hallucinating about much greenery in their rundown newsroom
Questions about the €3.5m IT fiasco, ‘groupthink’ and that promo ad didn’t match the roasting of two years ago over Tubsgate
A mother who refused to take no for an answer - for 13 years, 9 months and 20 days
Nearly 14 years after Shane O’Farrell’s needless death, the Minister of Justice presents a public apology
It’s a strange day in the Dáil when a schoolgirl makes the Government squirm with embarrassment
Cara Darmody made her presence felt as Taoiseach signalled intention to tackle delays for children awaiting assessment
It’s been like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds on Merrion Street since the sun started to shine
Mooney Goes Wild should do a programme from Leinster House
Sinn Féin’s ‘Mr Angry’ meets immovable object that is Micheál
Martin has measure of Pearse Doherty and Co as Dáil standoff continues over delayed report into children’s hip surgery
Hip operations uproar leaves Taoiseach in a bind
Micheál Martin was concerned enough about impending draft report to say ‘the implications are disturbing’
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 Dáil
Tsar Brendan the Terrible Big Salary, that mild-mannered banker set to pulverise those planners
Only one man can ruthlessly deliver and scale up like a mutant amphibious accountant in the country’s drains
Gerry Adams takes jurors in his defamation case against BBC on a very long stroll down memory lane
Former Sinn Féin leader describes formative years in 1960s Belfast to High Court in Dublin
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 awards
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 economy
Miriam Lord: Normal hostilities set aside as colleagues wish Richard Boyd Barrett well
A rare stillness fell on the chamber as TDs and Ministers wished Richard Boyd Barrett well following his cancer diagnosis
Miriam Lord: The drama of the Opposition’s walkout lost its potency when government backbenchers also bailed
A few Government buckeroos squawked their disapproval as Mary Lou and her boys made for the double doors to the right of Verona
Trump’s tariffs take wrecking ball to perfectly good Dáil row
Ceann Comhairle went to Dunne and Crescenzi during debate, but this was never going to be her last supper
Verona Murphy going nowhere as Dáil warring factions dig in
Hostilities resumed - quietly - on Wednesday over speaking rights row, with grim-faced TDs glowering across the chamber
Michael Lowry gives masterclass in smug ingratitude amid Dáil chaos over speaking time
Two-digit TD for Tipperary gloated dismissively as Opposition raged over Ceann Comhairle’s decision to bring Dáil confrontation over speaking rights to abrupt end
Taoiseach’s Oval Office whirl goes pear-shaped as Sinn Féin leader rounds on him
Micheál Martin accused of ‘sniggering’ at Ireland’s housing crisis and dodging Gaza issue during White House audience with Trump
Miriam Lord: Maga senator Sharon Keogan would only love to take Taoiseach’s place at shamrock jamboree
Independent senator wrote to the White House seeking a St Patrick’s Day invite
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 House
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’
Taoiseach erupts at Sinn Féin lecturing others about doing the right thing while canonising IRA slaytriots
Ceann Comhairle tells Micheál Martin to stop carrying on like a child following goading by Pearse Doherty over Michael Lowry
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’
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 row
Verona Murphy is swinging her mallet in the Dáil like Wexford’s answer to Thor
Allow them a little latitude and next minute it’s wholesale ructions and we’re disgraced in front of the world
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 nose
Danny Healy-Rae a lonely figure as Roaring Independents split
Danny Healy-Rae goes solo on Opposition benches after the old band breaks up, and watches his brother Michael hurry around the Government benches
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 women
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 Dáil
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