Miriam Lord: Leprechauns but no rainbows at Boston paradeThis year’s St Patrick’s Day controversy is brought to us by the ‘Southie’ shindigSat Mar 11 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny fails to see irony of his wordsTaoiseach stung as Galway TD takes him to task on ‘carefully crafted words’ about TuamThu Mar 09 2017 - 02:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny’s fine words too familiar for comfortAuthentic note of anger struck by Bríd Smith after Taoiseach’s speech on Tuam babiesWed Mar 08 2017 - 04:00
Miriam Lord: Merkel set to rain on Enda’s Trump paradePoliticians get down and dirty for Ireland while Denis Naughten’s corset causes a stirSat Mar 04 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: What to do with this runt of a Dáil – rip it up or pull like a dog?‘The New Politics’ is the unappealing offspring of the old, but more ineffectualFri Mar 03 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Populist band of travellers seeks recognitionCultural differences come to fore as Fianna Fáil minority asserts itself on water issueThu Mar 02 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: No Enda the road in sight for KennyIn the thick of things on Brexit, air-miles Enda tells Dáil all the latest from EU circuitWed Mar 01 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Enda starts his ‘Not Dead Yet’ tourIt’s also open season on private life of a man who bravely came out as a Fine Gael memberSat Feb 25 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Enda’s ‘High Noon’ has all the drama of FG high teaLast supper awaits Taoiseach if he fails to deliver on departure promisesThu Feb 23 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Millinery milestone for Michael Healy-RaeThe ‘Endit’ talks are being triggered but Kenny keen to take scenic route from powerWed Feb 22 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: FG blueblood wedding could put icing on cakeCabinet figures are to gather for exquisitely timed nuptials of former senator Eugene ReganSat Feb 18 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Without a whistleblower to call upon, you’re nobodyPoliticians run risky gauntlet to get on the right side of those maverick troublemakersThu Feb 16 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny and Fitzgerald are put on the rackThere were astonishing Dáil scenes as the Taoiseach came under fire over McCabe caseWed Feb 15 2017 - 04:00
Miriam Lord: Callinan’s show of ‘disgust’ rings hollowGardaí were quick to dish the dirt on McCabe, but not to set the record straightSat Feb 11 2017 - 01:00
Long-overlooked Labour seizes chance to make a splashDáil sketch: Brendan Howlin dive-bombs into the Garda Commissioner controversyThu Feb 09 2017 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Joan Burton’s terrifying tale of Brexit horrorThe José Mourinho protocol is invoked as Enda becomes the man who unites IrelandWed Feb 08 2017 - 01:04
Miriam Lord’s Week: Ross gets support from familiar sourceShane Ross versus Trump, a mum in the Dáil, Enda’s tall tales, the curlew and earwiggingSat Feb 04 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Fragrant Stephen climbs on to FF’s frontbenchBurbling Micheál Martin explodes with happiness as he unveils his new trophy TDThu Feb 02 2017 - 21:04
Miriam Lord: Spring fever, but Opposition smell a ratSuddenly, Richard Boyd-Barrett began performing exaggerated sweeping movementsThu Feb 02 2017 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Enda’s black eye bolsters him for WashingtonIt’s all fighting talk as Taoiseach sports a shiner ahead of his tête-à-tête with TrumpWed Feb 01 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Seamless and friction-free meeting of leadersNeither Enda Kenny nor Theresa May rubbed each other up the wrong wayTue Jan 31 2017 - 08:17
Miriam Lord's Week: Big-name dinner date saves day in CorkMicheál Martin and Simon Coveney to dine out on fundraising gig at Leinster HouseSat Jan 28 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Enda’s double visions for rural IrelandAmid gags about Big Tom and small farmers and fishermen, a bucolic plan is rolled outThu Jan 26 2017 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Enda puts America, the UK and himself firstAmid confusion over Brexit, Taoiseach gives the impression he is on the inside trackWed Jan 25 2017 - 04:00
Miriam Lord: Irish wake in Washington to mourn the Democratic dreamKelly’s Irish Times pub on Capitol Hill is the scene for Martin O’Malley’s eulogySat Jan 21 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Looking for some dangerous liaisons in the DáilAlas, Enda Kenny’s Parliamentary Liaison Unit is not quite Tinder for TDsThu Jan 19 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Ross reports . . . but not about Bus Éireann reportMinister’s Cabinet briefing may have run to tale of derring-do on the number 44 busWed Jan 18 2017 - 01:00
Miriam Lord gazes at 2017 through her crystal ballEnda finds his va-va-voom, O’Brien sues nobody and Boyd-Barrett is incandescentSat Dec 31 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: The year the recovery kept going . . . for someAll the ‘New Politics’ comes down to is installing ‘abstain’ buttons in the DáilSat Dec 24 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Year: 2016 was a long time in politicsWho was the best newcomer? The practical joker? Who paddled their own canoe?Sat Dec 17 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Simon Coveney turns up thermostat and calls FF bluffFF feel heat and blink first on rent BillFri Dec 16 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Two parties circle each other to square rent issueParty leaders resolutely stand by their respective men Simon Coveney and Barry CowenThu Dec 15 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Coveney like a brickie on piecework in PompeiiOpposition furious about not seeing plans before being asked to buy new rental planWed Dec 14 2016 - 01:02
Miriam Lord’s week: Gerry Adams tries to have it both waysRollercoaster week for Sinn Féin leader began in Cuba, ended with being called namesSat Dec 10 2016 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Farrell enjoys the privilege of baiting Ellis and FerrisFine Gael backbencher unperturbed by angry reaction from Sinn Féin TDsThu Dec 08 2016 - 01:00
Dáil Christmas tree becomes a gender balance issueThe best thing about the annual switching on of the Oireachtas Christmas tree lights is the awkwardnessWed Dec 07 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Eoin Ó Broin rocks Pat Kenny’s boatDenis Naughten writes a Santa letter while Eamon Ryan is a recycling Green machineSat Dec 03 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Water torture goes off boil as Bertie swirls backTidal wave of anxiety hits Fianna Fáil as possibility of former leader’s return emergesThu Dec 01 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Senators lose selfie control during Sturgeon visitScottish first minister said the occasion will live long in the memory, and they believed itWed Nov 30 2016 - 05:55
Miriam Lord: Shane Ross’s rules a red rag to angry Cabinet‘Obstinate, disruptive’ Winston Churchtown managing to rub everyone up wrong waySat Nov 26 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny finds his ‘pojo’ as Vatican visit loomsRónán Mullen tells Seanad ‘we’ve to drain the swamp’; ‘You’d be first to go,’ quips NorrisThu Nov 24 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Horse sense in short supply as talk is all TrumpHowlin thinks Shane Ross may be horsing around while Martin calls him cavalierWed Nov 23 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: On Military manoeuvres at Leinster HousePerfect chinese penmanship and stress relief share the corridors of power with portly ratsSat Nov 19 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Leaders keep Dáil entertained with cyber blusterTaoiseach and Ministers struggle to get heads around international threat of cyber crimeThu Nov 17 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: A bit of a show to impress the ChineseChina’s ‘fact-finding’ visit to the Dáil is derailed by a soliloquy by the man from TippWed Nov 16 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Trump therapy is not needed at Leinster HouseThe silver lining to the Donald’s win – it silences Ireland’s smug Clinton fan clubSat Nov 12 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Denizens of Leinster House suffer bout of DTsTrump will build that wall and ensure Healy-Raes never get across the borderThu Nov 10 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: No satnav aid for leaders eyeing Lansdowne bypassFF chief questions Taoiseach about Aviva location amid public-service pay quandaryWed Nov 09 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Brexit Road Runner heads over the cliffAIB chair draws on cartoon terms to give journalists a lesson on the UK’s futureSat Nov 05 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Unionists not kneaded at Great Brexit Speak-OffFestival of reasonableness prevails as unionists eschew worthy cross-Border think-inThu Nov 03 2016 - 01:00
