Miriam Lord: Little love in a cold climate for Martin and VaradkarThere’s a Valentine’s card for the Taoiseach but Micheál leaves his colleagues feeling unlovedWed Feb 13 2019 - 22:25
Miriam Lord: Never mind the cost overruns that nobody noticed. Just think of the childrenThe Government is only talking millions. Piffling amountsTue Feb 12 2019 - 22:00
Miriam Lord: Peter Casey likes to remind us ‘he hasn’t gone away’The presidential hopeful is apparently looking at a run for Europe, and maybe the DáilSat Feb 09 2019 - 00:05
Miriam Lord: Ireland is the cost overrun champion of the worldGovernment aims to get to the bottom of children’s hospital overspend, as we reach the Enda daysThu Feb 07 2019 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Government knows value of everything but cost of nothingVaradkar resorts to Wildean Reverse when faced with questions about children’s hospitalTue Feb 05 2019 - 22:30
Miriam Lord: What’s the beef with taking a lead on climate change?James Reilly insists the Oireachtas takes (electric) charge amid inaction on the issueSat Feb 02 2019 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Michael Healy-Rae gets on board the Local LinkKerry Independents fume at drink-driving restrictions on rural socialisingWed Jan 30 2019 - 21:45
Miriam Lord: Leo claims he never beat anyone, and then wheels out the Brexit heavy artilleryBríd Smith berates the Taoiseach’s ‘hard neck’, and tells him to stop ‘all the macho shaping up to the nurses’Tue Jan 29 2019 - 22:16
Miriam Lord: Taking the Dáil hacks out for a 100-year-old mealFashion always has a role to play, even in the halls of Leinster HouseSat Jan 26 2019 - 00:11
Miriam Lord: Silence is the golden rule for BrexitMartin, McDonald wore green for Leaders’ Questions but Leo put on his smartest suit for DavosWed Jan 23 2019 - 21:23
Miriam Lord: High-priced hospital? This is a job for The ConsultantsThe cost of the children’s hospital has tripled but Leo’s not worried: PwC is on the caseTue Jan 22 2019 - 21:24
Miriam Lord: Gas light, relics and rare parliamentary action in the Mansion HouseDáil maintains that time honoured tradition with lively centenary celebrationMon Jan 21 2019 - 23:25
Miriam Lord: TDs fume over golden tickets to Varadkar’s birthday doWhatsApp group causes commotion in Cabinet as invitations to Taoiseach’s bash prove scarceSat Jan 19 2019 - 00:02
Miriam Lord: Leo comes up with a reply to put fear of God into everyoneLeo and Simon clearly do not want to say anything on what a no-deal Brexit will meanWed Jan 16 2019 - 22:19
Miriam Lord: Brexit’s high drama sees Ross feeling absent-mindedThe Minister for Stepaside and Hockey is nowhere to be seen as Dáil returnsTue Jan 15 2019 - 22:01
Miriam Lord unveils her political winners, losers and total eejits of 2018Journalist John Waters takes the Sex Pistols gong for services to swearingSat Dec 22 2018 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Totes awk as Leo and Eoghan drop in for chat in Dublin schoolTaoiseach exits Dáil for festive season as Wallace raises Irish Ferries announcementWed Dec 19 2018 - 22:08
Miriam Lord: Balaclava proves a red rag to bullish VaradkarLeo and Pearse lock horns in verbal scrape about eviction ‘incidents’ and afterwardsTue Dec 18 2018 - 22:10
Miriam Lord: Micheál Martin's notions prove to be wide of the MarcFF’s backbench baritone pleads with leader to abandon confidence-and-supply dealSat Dec 15 2018 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Confidence and supply? More like Two Men and a GNUIf not for the sake of baby Brexit, he would be out of the relationship in a heartbeatWed Dec 12 2018 - 21:51
Miriam Lord: Journalists can breathe easy with Boris on the caseBrexiteer tells reporters in Loughinisland case he will leave (almost) no stone unturnedSat Dec 08 2018 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: It’s like the abortion referendum never happenedMattie McGrath blew a gasket at suggestions he might have been filibusteringWed Dec 05 2018 - 21:34
Miriam Lord: Leo misses switching the lights on after the Kylie excitementDiary clashes saw the Treeseach miss the festive tradition after non-existent concert mealTue Dec 04 2018 - 21:58
Miriam Lord’s Week: Dáil solves riddle of ‘Trigger’s broom’TDs discuss broadband consortium that altered composition but is somehow not newSat Dec 01 2018 - 01:12
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach issues most vicious threat - banning doughnutsQuestions over photographs of aspiring TDs clustering around a Minister in the hope of electoral jamminess rubbing offWed Nov 28 2018 - 21:44
Miriam Lord: Denis in blunderland and the magically morphing consortiumThe consortium bidding on the broadband plan is different but the same, says VaradkarTue Nov 27 2018 - 22:55
Miriam Lord: Young male DUPers fanboy shamelessly in the vicinity of BorisNothing would make them happier than to receive a Jacob Rees-Mogg doll for ChristmasSun Nov 25 2018 - 20:17
Miriam Lord: ‘Gendered language’ row reveals everyday sexism in SeanadMale politicians react smugly as woman senator overreacts to routine sideswipeSat Nov 24 2018 - 01:59
Miriam Lord: Senator says ‘highwayman’ slur helped rob him of his seatPaudie Coffey suing newspaper over comparison with 18th-century thief William CrottyWed Nov 21 2018 - 22:32
Miriam Lord: Mary Lou McDonald takes ‘sitting TD’ a little too farThe Sinn Féin leader defended her seat at the group photo celebrating women of the DáilTue Nov 20 2018 - 22:38
Miriam Lord: Varadkar’s speech was like a Hobbit’s front door – very low keyGoing forward was thrust forward quite a lot in a speech which was not backward about coming forwardSun Nov 18 2018 - 20:22
Miriam Lord: ‘Frozen semen issue’ delays discussion of Shane Ross BillFilibustering senators debate dogs and drugs instead of judicial appointmentsSat Nov 17 2018 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: It’s oh so quiet as Brexit causes rare Irish vow of silenceIn an uncommon moment of Irish political solidarity, all sides zip it to give May spaceThu Nov 15 2018 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Briefs moment allows Coppinger shine light on rape trial conductSolidarity TD records Irish parliamentary first by producing thong during Dáil sittingTue Nov 13 2018 - 22:19
Miriam Lord: Michael D reinstalled with due warmth and ceremonySmiles all round on a special night as the President shows how lucky we are to have himMon Nov 12 2018 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Brexit's procession leaves everyone hopping madMeanwhile, Catherine Martin shows she has the Commons touch during historic speechSat Nov 10 2018 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Creed’s straight bat sends Fianna Fáil into a spinMinister for Agriculture changes the tune but Opposition still refusing to buy itWed Nov 07 2018 - 23:08
Miriam Lord: Usual suspects engage in vicious backstop backstabbingVaradkar and McDonald savage each other over Border during Leaders’ QuestionsTue Nov 06 2018 - 22:12
Miriam Lord: Áras openness, Michael D and seven more yearsPresident Higgins received a warm letter of congratulations but did Brazil's Bolsonaro?Sat Nov 03 2018 - 05:14
Miriam Lord: Higgins hits right notes in right speech at right timeAirwaves buzzed with talk about the man who came a distant second, and how Casey might shake up IrelandSun Oct 28 2018 - 09:04
Miriam Lord’s Week: I hear you’re a bigamist now, KevinKevin ‘Butty’ Moran’s (first) wife seems quite pleased to have him taken off her handsSat Oct 27 2018 - 01:44
Miriam Lord: Nothing is sacred as Dáil all but forgets about blasphemyApart from Brendan Howlin urging a Yes vote, not many Deputies seemed to careWed Oct 24 2018 - 21:11
Miriam Lord: Clash between Coyote Casey and Talking Tea Cosy disappointsViewers of RTÉ presidential debate got an even-handed free for allWed Oct 24 2018 - 00:16
Miriam Lord’s Week: Toaster police pop up at Leinster House‘Irish Times’ sparks Brussels spat, political women booked and Casey Traveller remarksSat Oct 20 2018 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Higgins, informed and eloquent. Casey, a street fighterIt is lowest common denominator stuff, but Casey knows exactly what he is doingThu Oct 18 2018 - 01:03
Miriam Lord: It’s nothing personal but . . .No apologies for Frances Fitzgerald and no women for new ministerial appointmentsTue Oct 16 2018 - 23:29
Miriam Lord: Guess who should not have come to dinner?Ministers and billionaires are meant to be smart. What were Naughten and McCourt thinking?Sat Oct 13 2018 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Naughten runs for cover under close questioningFrustrated Fianna Fáil chief Micheál Martin resorts to . . . Jack Nicholson impressionWed Oct 10 2018 - 22:12
Miriam Lord: Paschal just needed a chorister’s ruff to complete choirboy imageHead count of five in Dáil bar before the speech proves budget is no longer box officeTue Oct 09 2018 - 21:59
Miriam Lord: Bríd Smith neatly finishes Varadkar’s sentenceLeo knew he was about to put his foot in it on housing, so he put his mouth in reverseSat Oct 06 2018 - 01:00
