Dáil Sketch: Joan Burton declines to show her vicious streakTánaiste takes barbs in her stride as Ruth Coppinger goes on the attackFri Mar 06 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Adams annoyed at Dáil decibel levelsDeputies shouting and roaring, punctuated by the Ceann Comhairle’s ineffectual yelps – poor Gerry Adams can hardly hear himself glareThu Mar 05 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Feelgood engine revs up on Merrion SquareAs the Coalition moves into the final phase of its term, positive announcements are beginning to rollWed Mar 04 2015 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Joan Burton tries not to raise her voiceTánaiste had clearly been voice-trained to within an inch of her bubbly personalityMon Mar 02 2015 - 01:01
Miriam Lord’s Week: Labour’s turn to batten down the hatchesPortrait painter makes exhibition of eminent headsSat Feb 28 2015 - 05:45
Miriam Lord: Opposition in rude health over Leo Varadkar’s smirkMicheál Martin criticises Varadkar over his response to delayed discharges crisisThu Feb 26 2015 - 05:30
Miriam Lord: It’s a close shave, but Michael Healy-Rae is no Gerry AdamsTaoiseach snows SF leader under blizzard of detail on Expressway route changesWed Feb 25 2015 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Enda fans simmer and swoon for ‘party icon’Kenny gives polished performance as bouquets and brickbats fly at Fine Gael conferenceMon Feb 23 2015 - 01:15
Miriam Lord: Elusive Enda Kenny transports Gerry Adams to an angry placeAdams raises issue of salary increases for ministerial advisers with TaoiseachThu Feb 19 2015 - 08:41
A nation once again, but Gerry Adams is not happyRichard Boyd Barrett says Sinn Féin has helped bring about unity by austerityWed Feb 18 2015 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Gab McFadden tries to rescue Irish from SFWillie Walsh maintains holding pattern over ShannonSat Feb 14 2015 - 12:06
Miriam Lord: Shatter can’t keep eyes away from his former officeFormer minister has much to say about current affairs in Department of JusticeThu Feb 12 2015 - 05:30
Miriam Lord: Enda says it’s all down to the ConstitutionKenny invokes wisdom of Attorney General to shoot-down Clare Daly’s BillWed Feb 11 2015 - 05:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Ó Caoláin keeps to the left of Fine GaelHumphreys gave schoolchildren day off while Varadkar gave tips on keeping pounds offSat Feb 07 2015 - 09:25
Miriam Lord: Gerry Adams smells a rat in the chamberThere’s an outbreak of twitching noses in the Dáil, and a few noses out of joint. Will there be a commission of inquiry into the source of the pong?Thu Feb 05 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Alan Shatter’s protests fuel residual rancourAlan is causing ructions - thanks to him, the Ceann Comhairle nearly lost his job this weekWed Feb 04 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Taoiseach butters up the farmersSimon Coveney arrived late for the Irish Farmers’ Association meeting, but Enda did milk it a bitSat Jan 31 2015 - 01:00
Shatter strikes again and Enda’s good day is overThe nation stopped in its tracks and turned up the radioThu Jan 29 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: promise of reform stays locked in CabinetIt seems Kenny and Gilmore and their ministers stuck a paragraph into their programme for government to stop themselves spilling the beansWed Jan 28 2015 - 05:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Let them eat nothing but foie grasLabour get lesson in teamwork from Brian CodySat Jan 24 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: A window of wanton consensus on wording‘It’s strange when almost every politician is in favour of something’Thu Jan 22 2015 - 05:30
Miriam Lord: Intimacy in mind as parties eye up partnersAs election draws near, the atmosphere is going to get more tenseWed Jan 21 2015 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Brave Leo Varadkar gives it to us straightFor those aware of where Varadkar interview was heading it made for difficult listeningMon Jan 19 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Eddie will be okay if Lucinda has her wayCreighton lines up breakfast briefing for female political journalists, a sort of ‘Ladies Who Launch’ eventSat Jan 17 2015 - 01:03
Miriam Lord: O’Brien left, seething with anger. You sense the relief in the chamberSinn Féin TD garners little sympathy after revealing his brother is a recovering addictFri Jan 16 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Dangerous wind warning as Dáil returnsJobs and jibes make for a serendipitous new year in Leinster HouseThu Jan 15 2015 - 05:30
Miriam Lord: Welcome to Lucinda’s and Shane’s Republic of LooseA fascinating slow bicycle race is in full swing among our IndependentsSat Jan 10 2015 - 14:26
Miriam Lord: It’s political springtime as plethora of elections and referendums loomLabour is a tough old beast. It’ll be up to Joan to put the fight back into the partySat Jan 10 2015 - 14:25
Miriam Lord’s Political Awards for 2014See how Joan Burton, Enda Kenny, Gerry Adams, Micheál Martin and Mary Lou McDonald performed this yearSat Dec 27 2014 - 07:34
Miriam Lord: review of the yearOngoing controversy over water charges has left the Coalition listing badlySat Dec 20 2014 - 06:09
Miriam Lord: Banking inquiry opens to yawns of excitementMario Draghi was asked to appear, but he’s not inclined to - and there’s nothing Enda can doThu Dec 18 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Gerry taken aback as Enda points finger at SFKenny and Martin finally make up over issue of the mystery of the disappearing filesWed Dec 17 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: No limits on our two old MichaelsPresident and Minister have combined age of 144 – but it hasn’t slowed their gallopSat Dec 13 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: No tanks on Leinster Lawn but revolution close to seat of powerGerry Adams, Mary Lou McDonald receive cheers during water charge protestThu Dec 11 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Enda Kenny confidence motion a pantomimeEarly in the debate the Opposition had clearly written it off as a waste of timeWed Dec 10 2014 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Pantibar welcomes Taoiseach for pints and posesBishop of Elphin wonders what Enda Kenny was thinking attending a gay barSat Dec 06 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: I’m a Politician - Don’t Kick Me Out of Here!It’s getting TV-show hectic in Leinster HouseFri Dec 05 2014 - 03:00
Miriam Lord: Mary Lou detonates alleged Ansbacher listGive Mary Lou McDonald a mirror and she’d upstage herselfThu Dec 04 2014 - 07:56
Miriam Lord: The scene of this man’s death seems more shocking than the manner of itJonathan Corrie was not the first homeless person to die in Dublin, he won’t be the lastWed Dec 03 2014 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Lucinda Creighton plans start (and end) of her new partyReform Alliance leader proposes a first: a party that will throw itself out of powerFri Nov 28 2014 - 21:52
Miriam Lord: the ‘big people’ don’t believe each otherNoisy protests, water charges, and children from Monaghan who know better than their eldersThu Nov 27 2014 - 01:00
Dail Sketch: Trapped media veteran a captive audience for TDsGovernment in complete flap over deepening crisis, Opposition sensing blood and hard left believing Revolution finally about to dawnWed Nov 26 2014 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: tedious TDs no longer fit to be tiedLeinster House in the 1970s sounds like great funSat Nov 22 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Coalition willing to do anything to get out of water charges mess‘They were all ears - remorseful and ready to hear what representatives of the people had to say’Thu Nov 20 2014 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny in search of miracle to part red seaTaoiseach faces anxious wait to see if water charge measures can restore calmWed Nov 19 2014 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s week: Sinn Féin sits-in as Bertie Ahern rises for 1916Shane Ross found out it can sometimes be hard to spend a penny in Leinster HouseSat Nov 15 2014 - 16:48
Miriam Lord: Adams plays victim over Cahill allegations, to Dáil disgustNone in Dáil other than his followers bought the Sinn Féin leader’s defenceThu Nov 13 2014 - 00:59
Miriam Lord: Wait until next Wednesday when Enda will part the watersThere are only seven more sleepless nights until Enda Kenny tells allWed Nov 12 2014 - 01:00
