Thanks be to Jaaysus: final debate wraps up a God-awful presidential election Lagging in the polls, Heather Humphreys needed a knockout blow - it was quickly apparent it was not coming Wed Oct 22 2025 - 09:49
Miriam Lord’s Week: Micheál’s damage limitation might be too little too late after allO’Donovan tells lovely wee stories, insomnia inspires McCullagh and Sinn Féin slip up on no-showsSat Oct 18 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Presidential election proving to be a piece of cake for Catherine ConnollyThough her campaign is buoyant, one spirited elderly voter remains unconvincedWed Oct 15 2025 - 21:46
Winter may be coming, but Opposition not short of fuel to roast the TaoiseachMicheál Martin feeling the chill in the Dáil chamber over heating costs and housing Wed Oct 15 2025 - 06:00
A week of so many leaks Fianna Fáil ought to call in the specialist plumbersThe party might be in crisis, but at least it has a solid sense of humourSat Oct 11 2025 - 06:00
From Belfast to Dublin via the Reichstag, Heather puts in the mileage for Áras bidPresidential candidate’s fire brigade visit would have been even more valuable two days earlierThu Oct 09 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Everyone is knocking great enjoyment out of the Fianna Fáil drama which overshadowed budget dayOpposition and everyone else are knocking great enjoyment out of the presidential drama, tooWed Oct 08 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: It was Fianna Fáil’s DUBU Day: Disastrous, Unbelievable, Bizarre, UnprecedentedJim Gavin posters will be down off lamp-posts quicker than the unauthorised tricolours above themTue Oct 07 2025 - 06:00
Budget battle truce declared as Paschal’s kid lines out for Na FiannaOscar Donohoe is part of Glasnevin club playing Dublin senior football semi-final against Kilmacud Crokes on SundaySat Oct 04 2025 - 06:00
Big Jim moves to dispel any notion that colleagues are at budget loggerheadsThe run up to the budget this year has been unusually quiet. Except within the merciless confines of the Mixed Ministerial Arts octagon in Government BuildingsThu Oct 02 2025 - 06:00
Martin, resplendent in his single transferable suit, was not ready for Bike Shed Part IIThis was one anniversary Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald wasn’t going to miss Wed Oct 01 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: McDowell turns a page as Steen seethesSenator relaxes at book launch as failed presidential hopeful vents in blame gameSat Sept 27 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Handbag at the Dáil for Maria Steen as her Áras run comes to an endCatherine Connolly continues her duties as a TD while Heather Humphreys hits the campaign trail ladderThu Sept 25 2025 - 06:00
Maria Steen, opponent of marriage equality and abortion, championed as a symbol of choiceIndependent Ireland took irony to new level in statement of support for presidential hopefulWed Sept 24 2025 - 06:00
Jim Gavin comes with his own presidential parachute and ticks all the boxesFianna Fáil faithful are praying the leadership doesn’t make a mess of its amusing plan to win the presidential election though superior tacticsMon Sept 01 2025 - 06:00
Dublin Smackdown: How WWE suplexed thousands of eager Irish kids and even more grown menFor almost three hours, a who’s who of wrestling superstars enthralled capacity crowd at 3Arena Sun Aug 24 2025 - 16:48
People discarded jackets in the heat, but Princess Anne was clad in scarf and glovesBritish media outlets described the visit as possibly Michael D’s last engagement with a ‘senior royal’Wed Aug 06 2025 - 21:23
Deaths in Co Fermanagh: ‘The only comfort we have is that Vanessa, James and Sara are together and finally safe’Funeral Mass for Vanessa Whyte and her two teenage children takes place in Co ClareSat Aug 02 2025 - 21:52
Miriam Lord’s Dáil end-of-term awards: from cute hoors to rookie errors and good operatorsBig Jim is best in class, although sluggish start means new intake of TDs are yet to get much of a look-in - and as for Tipperary’s kingmaker...Sat Jul 26 2025 - 06:00
Eager Ministers line up for their spending money as Coalition announces National Development PlanThe rejigged NDP is ‘unprecedented in scale and scope’, said the Tánaiste. It’s also a bit light on detailWed Jul 23 2025 - 06:00
Miriam’s Lord’s Week: The gang’s (almost) all here for the Healy-Rae hooleyJunior Minister Michael hosted a lunch in Leinster House to thank his general election team, but TD brother Danny didn’t attendSat Jul 19 2025 - 06:00
Catherine Connolly’s Áras campaign begins with a very ‘soft launch’ Independent TD got a cheer from the Gaza protesters corralled beyond Buswell’s HotelThu Jul 17 2025 - 06:00
Minister for Health makes emergency intervention after Taoiseach’s joke ripples through the HouseDanny Healy-Rae makes impassioned plea on behalf of Killorglin publicans ahead of Puck FairWed Jul 16 2025 - 06:00
‘Disco pants’ Niall Quinn could be just the Áras ticket for Fianna FáilAt the Irish embassy bash in London, guests were focused on the all-consuming question of who will enter the race for the Áras Sat Jul 12 2025 - 06:00
Taoiseach turned tables on the Opposition when they least expected it with moment of clarityProposed increase in personal injury awards has been divisive, yet Micheál Martin took probing question in his strideThu Jul 10 2025 - 06:00
Mary Lou seemed to have an extra pep to her step. Was that a Statement Jacket?Micheál Martin performed a masterclass in sidestepping questions about rising costsWed Jul 09 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Guests sang Donald Trump’s signature tune at the US ambassador’s bash until embarrassment got the better of them Michael Flatley toots a flute for Irish-US relations; Micheál Martin gets plonked in front of a harp in Japan Sat Jul 05 2025 - 06:00
Once a star who had it all, DJ Carey’s life has been reduced to a squalid tale of deceptionFall from icon to fraudster was laid bare in court as he answered ‘guilty’ 10 timesWed Jul 02 2025 - 20:55
The Opposition called for clarity over third-level fees. Chambers of Commerce gave them anything butStudents left none the wiser ahead of fast-approaching return to the classroomWed Jul 02 2025 - 06:00
Britain’s ambassador takes Darragh O’Brien’s name gaffe like a diplomat at summer garden party ‘We’ve so fallen in love with the city, country and people,’ says Paul Johnston, announcing he is to stay in DublinSat Jun 28 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Jim O’Callaghan took Leaders’ Questions. Expectations were modest…Some people might have been thinking Jim O’Callaghan was chosen to answer questions precisely because of the topic Thu Jun 26 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: ‘Taoiseach, do you do a weekly shop?’ It’s not even funny to think aboutImagine 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 crispWed Jun 25 2025 - 06:00
If our Geraldine can thrive in Trump’s Washington, she might be a worthy winner of the race for the ÁrasPlus: tragic fox news, a Rose county by any other name and AK-47 reloads and opens fireSat Jun 21 2025 - 06:00
‘Ceann Comhairle, how long is this going to continue?’: Dáil interruptions starting to wreck Taoiseach’s headVerona Murphy is not for extending response time despite interruptions much to Martin’s annoyanceThu Jun 19 2025 - 06:00
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’Wed Jun 18 2025 - 06:00
A mystery VIP Leinster House guest revealed and a visit from Charles and CamillaFormer children’s show presenter Timmy Mallett has been cycling around Ireland in memory of his late brother, and recently met Micheál Martin in CorkSat Jun 14 2025 - 06:00
Phantom cigarette puffer of Merrion Street prompts chortles in DáilTaoiseach Micheál Martin spots Minister – who had supposedly quit – smoking outside amid proposal to make Leinster House a tobacco-free zoneWed Jun 11 2025 - 21:59
Micheál pummelled from all sides over Government’s latest plan to ease rental crisisAs the Taoiseach batted away criticism of Coalition’s rent reforms, he may have asked himself, ‘what would the king of Jordan do?’ Wed Jun 11 2025 - 06:00
Only the introduction of Tina’s maiden name could stir a response from ‘monster’ Richard SatchwellRichard Satchwell’s self-centred delusion still had capacity to surprise after a five week trialWed Jun 04 2025 - 20:59
Miriam Lord’s week: Influencer Richie Herlihy’s foul-mouthed review of Dáil restaurant leaves a bad tasteRichie Herlihy met none of the TDs he wouldn’t get along with, but if he had, he would have given them a piece of his mindSat May 31 2025 - 06:00
Hacks in Montrose must be hallucinating about much greenery in their rundown newsroomQuestions about the €3.5m IT fiasco, ‘groupthink’ and that promo ad didn’t match the roasting of two years ago over TubsgateThu May 29 2025 - 06:00
A mother who refused to take no for an answer - for 13 years, 9 months and 20 daysNearly 14 years after Shane O’Farrell’s needless death, the Minister of Justice presents a public apology Wed May 28 2025 - 06:00
Dismay among RTÉ staffers as broadcaster hires actors to play journalists in ‘make-believe’ ad campaignFor God’s sake don’t tell Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan about thisSat May 24 2025 - 06:00
‘Repulsive’; ‘obscene’; ‘genocide’: Dáil voices rise in unison over Israel’s slaughter in GazaSinn Féin leader gets short shrift from Taoiseach in row over Central Bank’s Israeli war bonds issuesThu May 22 2025 - 06:00
It’s a strange day in the Dáil when a schoolgirl makes the Government squirm with embarrassmentCara Darmody made her presence felt as Taoiseach signalled intention to tackle delays for children awaiting assessmentWed May 21 2025 - 06:00
It’s been like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds on Merrion Street since the sun started to shineMooney Goes Wild should do a programme from Leinster HouseSat May 17 2025 - 06:00
Sinn Féin’s ‘Mr Angry’ meets immovable object that is MicheálMartin has measure of Pearse Doherty and Co as Dáil standoff continues over delayed report into children’s hip surgeryThu May 15 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Hip operations uproar leaves Taoiseach in a bindMicheál Martin was concerned enough about impending draft report to say ‘the implications are disturbing’Wed May 14 2025 - 06:00
Never mind the new pope, who’s going to replace Liveline’s spiritual leader, Joe Duffy?Michael McDowell coy at book launch, Bertie gives state-of-the-world address and Mark Daly feels the heatSat May 10 2025 - 06:00
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 DáilThu May 08 2025 - 06:01
