Miriam Lord: Leo keeps it brief for last speech before Dáil packed with about 11 peopleNo stirring words but not a dry seat in the House what with all the extreme disinfectingWed Jun 24 2020 - 21:30
Miriam Lord: Blinking back tears, Charlestown bids farewell to its much-loved Garda ColmFamily, friends and colleagues give community stalwart a loving State funeralSun Jun 21 2020 - 22:05
Miriam Lord: Who will get the big jobs if new coalition gets the Green light?Meanwhile, Eamon Ryan recites poem to weary negotiators during intense late-night sessionSat Jun 20 2020 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Cottage pie and a pint and a trip to the barber of SevilleDáil operatics on behalf of long-haired as pub grub menu mulled over ahead of reopeningWed Jun 17 2020 - 21:54
Miriam Lord: Two meat and veg government finally on the menuLeo tries to seem pleased for potential next taoiseach Micheál, while Eamon buys socksMon Jun 15 2020 - 22:31
Miriam Lord: Some Greens keen to asterisk Deputy R*** out of the pictureWhatever happens now with Eamon Ryan’s leadership, there won’t be any statue of himThu Jun 11 2020 - 22:15
Miriam Lord: Greens in or out? That’s the only question in Leinster HouseFluff is in the air as TDs talk climate change and government formationWed Jun 10 2020 - 22:33
Miriam Lord: Fat cats go bats as captains of industry take over the chamberThe sight of Ibec CEO Danny McCoy in Leo Varadkar’s seat was too much for some TDsTue Jun 09 2020 - 22:16
Miriam Lord: ‘Summer is not lost,’ says Leo but can a government be found?Spurned Ministers carry on as before even though they have lost their seatsThu Jun 04 2020 - 22:05
Miriam Lord: Michael Ring came to praise his department, not bury itMayo TD had the air of a man presiding at the obsequies for his own ministryWed Jun 03 2020 - 22:31
Miriam Lord: Not a bare ankle, hairy knee or a Ming the Trouserless to be seen at Covid committeeFire engine metaphors race to public-private hospital rescueTue Jun 02 2020 - 22:09
Miriam Lord: Reluctant Halligan bangs the nail on the headJohn raises cheers but fails to realise mutual dislike is no bar to unlikely political unionThu May 28 2020 - 22:15
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach is trapped in a Zoom session from hellMary Lou relishes the ‘benefit of great ventilation for all the hot air’ in the chamberWed May 27 2020 - 22:25
Miriam Lord: Leo’s Phoenix pecs just a storm in a bag of cansChestgate. Picnicgate. Posergate. Wickergate. Call it what you will. Varadkar did no harmTue May 26 2020 - 21:17
Miriam Lord: Timing is everything as Alan Kelly blows another gasketLabour leader brings his stopwatch to give out about ‘bonkers’ health guidance for TDsThu May 21 2020 - 22:23
Miriam Lord: Pods for politicians could be the perfect solution‘Unelected’ Zappone takes almost two hours of questions from the floorWed May 20 2020 - 22:13
Miriam Lord: TDs give Princes of Petri Dish very mild, almost pleasant, grillingMathematics of doing Dáil business has reached levels of advanced calculusTue May 19 2020 - 22:18
Miriam Lord: Kelly on Code Red in the search for a Covid-19 villainLabour leader waves ‘explosive’ letter but Mattie McGrath blows his top completelyThu May 14 2020 - 21:57
Miriam Lord: Bickering Dáil flesh-pressers try to 'un-lay' a report about Alan ShatterMotion to remove report critical of Alan Shatter from Dáil record thrown out for nowWed May 13 2020 - 21:30
Miriam Lord: Dr Varadkar’s Chamber of Covid is not for the faint-heartedVaradkar awakes screaming from Leaving Cert nightmare to reality of Covid paymentsThu May 07 2020 - 21:57
Miriam Lord: Ministers without seats populate Kildare Street twilight zoneZappone reports for duty in Leinster House as Ross remains in south Dublin cocoonWed May 06 2020 - 22:17
Miriam Lord: Another Soliloquy on Merrion Street, but there was a daring twistSlow and steady does it as Taoiseach unveils five-stage Covid Lockdown Exit planFri May 01 2020 - 22:42
Miriam Lord: It’s Kerry v China as the Healy-Raes look to the eastKerry TDs want UN to investigate China’s role in spread of coronavirusThu Apr 30 2020 - 22:12
Miriam Lord: Blame the virus - the Dáil is a sad, pathetic little parliament nowDáil Sketch: Move to Convention Centre can’t come too soon for socially distancing TDsThu Apr 23 2020 - 22:09
Miriam Lord: Varadkar leads from the front on Pandemic Republic questionsWill Micheál Martin ever get to sit in Leo’s seat? A political reshuffle of interest only to themThu Apr 16 2020 - 22:19
Miriam Lord: Century of Civil War politics ends with a wheedleSmaller parties give short shrift to Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s shameless wooingWed Apr 15 2020 - 22:06
Miriam Lord: Messages of hope but no bank holiday weekend rollover jackpotThree more weeks of restrictions as Leo quotes over-plundered HeaneyFri Apr 10 2020 - 21:51
Miriam Lord: You cannot cocoon democracy – or can you?Dark day in the Dáil, as questions go unanswered by MinistersThu Apr 02 2020 - 21:43
Miriam Lord: When did we in our wildest dreams envisage a field hospital in Saggart?Ardfheiseanna in Citywest will never be the same againWed Apr 01 2020 - 21:12
Miriam Lord: Vigilant Richard Boyd Barrett keeps the Hungary at bayPeople Before Profit leader ensures that Leo Varadkar will not lead us all up the DanubeTue Mar 31 2020 - 21:00
Miriam Lord: Nation claps its hands for heroic health workersDáil debates emergency Covid-19 Bill, but there’s no debate about the need for speedThu Mar 26 2020 - 22:11
Miriam Lord: Thundering gobshitery while majority ‘busting their backsides’Simon Harris coughed at by middle-aged man ‘who looked pleased with himself’Wed Mar 25 2020 - 21:38
Miriam Lord: Leo calls a nation to double arms as it faces Covid-1916Signs for hope are outlined as the war Cabinet gives an update on The EmergencyTue Mar 24 2020 - 22:31
Miriam Lord: Outbreak of solidarity as Dáil votes to do right thing on coronavirusFew TDs in chamber as social distancing rules apply, but sense of foreboding in the airThu Mar 19 2020 - 22:26
Miriam Lord: Desperate times require extraordinary lines as Leo finds right wordsVaradkar, supposedly a lame duck Taoiseach, enlists a scared nation to face the surgeWed Mar 18 2020 - 07:26
Miriam Lord: A parade in Dublin you could only dream aboutAs leader of the Green Party, Eamon Ryan was official ruler of Ireland for St Patrick’s DayTue Mar 17 2020 - 23:16
Miriam Lord: Time stands still for Leo ahead of sanitised Trump meetingVaradkar sparks run on toilet roll back home before Dr Donald assures us virus is going awayThu Mar 12 2020 - 22:28
Miriam Lord: Will Donald touch the shamrock bowl if Leo has touched it first?Coronavirus made Leo a Riverdance no-show, saving himself for germaphobe DonaldWed Mar 11 2020 - 22:23
Miriam Lord: Seanad candidates get their campaigns in full swingRuth Coppinger goes on the attack while Justin Warfield warbles some old tunesSat Mar 07 2020 - 02:23
Miriam Lord: What exactly is Alan Kelly doing to a Fianna Fáil senator outside the Dáil?Man who hopes to take over from Howlin unapologeticThu Mar 05 2020 - 22:19
Miriam Lord: The gloves are off as William and Kate launch charm offensiveIt seems the Cambridges were well briefed on the political situation here in a non-partisan wayTue Mar 03 2020 - 22:16
Miriam Lord: Leinster House plinth posturing has reached ridiculous proportionsNegotiators declare what it might take to consider lending their brilliance to an administrationSat Feb 29 2020 - 01:28
Miriam Lord: Lady Lou crowned the People’s Taoiseach at Liberty HallAnother earthquake moment at Sinn Féin rally on a mission to disprove seismology isn’t everythingWed Feb 26 2020 - 06:42
Miriam Lord’s Week: A grand coalition of grudges beckonsAn unholy marriage of FF and FG would badly squeeze Cabinet space for both partiesSat Feb 22 2020 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Dáil’s pessimistic return fails to solve leaders’ questionsEarly celebrations give way to gloom as a stable government remains a distant hopeThu Feb 20 2020 - 21:58
Miriam Lord: Posturing, preening and photo-ops dominate 33rd Dáil prelimsNew TDs shown around the Dáil chamber but all the action is on the plinthWed Feb 19 2020 - 22:22
Miriam Lord: New TDs have a great welcome for themselvesOireachtas staff supplied with handy mugshots of new TDs as parties descendSat Feb 15 2020 - 02:04
Miriam Lord: A very strange situation, including Gerry Adams, his PLO scarf and Bee-Gees hairFianna Fáil queue up to give message of ABSF – ‘Anybody But Sinn Féin’Thu Feb 13 2020 - 21:58
Miriam Lord: All change in Leinster House following Change ElectionSocial Democrats savour dizzy heights of half dozen while Howlin steps down with little fussWed Feb 12 2020 - 22:36
Miriam Lord: Sinn Féin voters may be denied the gift they most desireThe one political present they don’t want might yet end up under the tree after allMon Feb 10 2020 - 22:29
