Miriam Lord: Can Ross’s ‘non-party’ win some true believers?The Independent Alliance wanted to nail down the unstable door before the horse boltedSat Feb 13 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Martin blossoms as colleagues shrink to wallflowersIf FF leader was in our faces any more than he is now he would face headbutting chargesFri Feb 12 2016 - 16:31
Miriam Lord: Small parties get on their high stoolsSocial Democrats launch in a whiskey museum, while Greens strangely choose a red busThu Feb 11 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Gerry has answers but not for the questionsGangland killings have shifted election focus away from where Sinn Féin wants itWed Feb 10 2016 - 09:01
Miriam Lord: Enda’s fairytale visit to south DublinSome Dundrum mothers were not impressed at being asked to pipe down during the eventTue Feb 09 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Ballot Capers as Flynn feels love from CreightonA sideways look at the election campaignMon Feb 08 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Adams among familiar initials at RIA launchWhatever about the letters, the Shinners had the fiscal space maths correctSat Feb 06 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Martin escapes behind the counter to avoid ‘coalition-ology’ talkAfter talking at length about polls, Fianna Fáil leader refuses to talk about pollsFri Feb 05 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Breathless Enda is gone in 60 secondsOpposition leaders knocked for six by the wash churning in Kenny’s wakeWed Feb 03 2016 - 21:08
Plenty of parking as Enda goes boldly into fiscal spaceMiriam Lord: ‘Don’t make unnecessary promises,’ Teresa Mannion could shout as election loomsWed Feb 03 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Lacklustre Burton fails even to attract protestersHeavy security but no hint of the ‘forest of placards’ predicted by Gilmore five years agoMon Feb 01 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Lucky escape as FG poster is liquidatedA gasp-inducing poster, Eamon Gilmore dances while Enda Kenny orbits on campaignSat Jan 30 2016 - 07:33
Miriam Lord: Micheál Martin begs for just a little more timeFianna Fáil leader stutters in the Dáil but there’s no sign of dissolving from KennyThu Jan 28 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach drops hints as Dáil’s end nears‘The telescope is beginning to shorten,’ Enda Kenny tells HouseWed Jan 27 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Dr Reilly gives Fine Gael a repeat prescriptionDeputy leader James Reilly tries to persuade party he is on to a winning storyMon Jan 25 2016 - 00:00
Miriam Lord: How Enda Kenny got Joe’s full attentionTaoiseach hits the Davos road with Nobel prizewinning US economist Joseph StiglitzSat Jan 23 2016 - 07:35
Miriam Lord: Talkative Mary has relationships with all sidesGiddy politicians are getting more and more difficult to control in dying days of this DáilThu Jan 21 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kelly talks up baths after pouring EU gravyAnger as TDs are convinced FAI’s John Delaney was canvassing for his pal Alan KellyWed Jan 20 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Polls finally close for ‘man of substance’ PJ MaraPolitical, media and business figures bid farewell to FF’s ‘showtime’ spin doctorSun Jan 17 2016 - 09:06
Miriam Lord: PJ Mara was a charming, disarming spin doctorThe FF strategist gave the impression he found the whole political thing a bit of a larkSat Jan 16 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny left buoyant by Harris’s hand of GodTaoiseach floats on as Opposition attempts to bog him down in Shannon’s murky watersThu Jan 14 2016 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Predictions, promises and pratfalls for 2016FF are shaken, not stirred, by 007 O’Dea while FG cobble a government togetherSat Jan 02 2016 - 07:44
Miriam Lord’s 2015: From OMG to OMFG in 12 monthsThe year saw same-sex marriage vote pass while Coalition began to consider divorceTue Dec 29 2015 - 12:44
Miriam Lord: Charlie Bucket of politics wins golden ticketWhy John Perry shall go to the ball . . . or to the general election with Fine GaelWed Dec 23 2015 - 01:01
Miriam Lord: The pick of political winners from this year’s DáilHarris may be only about 14, but he has performed with a maturity on difficult issuesSat Dec 19 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: End-of-term fun until Halligan silences the ladsDáil Sketch: Sinn Féin’s health strategy gets a laugh, but there’s time for serious issuesThu Dec 17 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: What is Enda cooking up for January?Dáil sketch: No more news on the election but prepare to count calories in New YearWed Dec 16 2015 - 01:08
Miriam Lord’s Week: Willie O’Dea and the Phantom visitTD fails to secure Leinster House car parking place despite rolling up in Rolls-RoyceSat Dec 12 2015 - 05:45
Miriam Lord: Peter Mathews – martyr to standing ordersTDs watch in disbelief as serial interrupter fails to get ejected by Ceann ComhairleThu Dec 10 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Light mood brings good tidings between old foesKenny and Martin put those pesky political differences aside in pursuit of festive cheerTue Dec 08 2015 - 22:04
Miriam Lord: Labour deputy renamed ‘Big Bawls’ KellyBirthday bash for Kevin Bakhurst makes big news at RTÉ, while price of carpet is soft issueSat Dec 05 2015 - 07:27
Miriam Lord: Enda promises not to make endless promisesDáil sketch: After years of short rations, the lid is off the national biscuit tinThu Dec 03 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Martin ready to rumble but Kenny ducking and divingStruggle in the interest of democracy and goes to . . . ‘heart of democratic revolution’Wed Dec 02 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Enda may have a date with St BrigidWhatever about Christmas, Leinster House is frozen by election speculationSat Nov 28 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: House slowly implodes in pre-election lullA quiet week leads to Lucinda Creighton being asked bizarre Hitler questionThu Nov 26 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Christmas is coming, Dáil’s goose is cookedDáil sketch: The 31st Dáil is a turkey. Stick a fork in it. It’s doneWed Nov 25 2015 - 01:04
Miriam Lord’s Week: Irish lads keep it cool in royal presenceTD Noel Coonan and Princess Anne have a great chat about horses over dinnerSat Nov 21 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny continues search for the perfect modelGerry Adams rechristened Fine Gael’s famous Five Point Plan the ‘Five Point Scam’Thu Nov 19 2015 - 01:00
Dáil sketch: a minute can be a long time in politicsBoth Houses of the Oireachtas observe minute’s silence as mark of respect to victims of attacks in ParisWed Nov 18 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Lack of answers no bar to Cahill’s electionShock and tears as 20 Senators and TDs fail to remember their own names for ballotSat Nov 14 2015 - 01:00
Chinese walls in Government Buildings don’t need bricks and mortarIt appears Enda put in some temporary partitions between himself and the MinisterThu Nov 12 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Pink ladies squeeze last mileage out of The GaysFrances Fitzgerald and Joan Burton fire starting gun for same-sex marital sprintWed Nov 11 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: All fur coat at FG’s fundraising bashComedian thinks the Taoiseach should know the full story about women’s bitsSat Nov 07 2015 - 01:02
Miriam Lord: Kenny’s decisiveness is winter’s first casualtyDoes Noonan say ‘I told you so’ every time he bumps into the Taoiseach in the corridor?Thu Nov 05 2015 - 01:00
Move over Jack Bauer – Enda’s got 48 hours to save usMiriam Lord: Like a double episode of 24, our superhero had to act fast to avert disasterWed Nov 04 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Denis O’Brien reveals the secrets of his successAt a special event in Jamaica, the visionary businessman finally spilled the beansSun Nov 01 2015 - 10:28
Miriam Lord: Ireland could learn from gay marriage Bill scrum‘It would have done the Argies proud, the way they ploughed into us,’ says Labour stalwartSat Oct 24 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: War of words over IRA’s army councilEnda and Micheál stand together as Sinn Féin fumesThu Oct 22 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: All remembered with love, laughter, sorrowWhile this was very much a Travellers’ funeral, many others paid their respectsWed Oct 21 2015 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Fine Gael members driven away by legal threatDara Murphy ally prompts walk-out by threatening to sue Senator Burke for slanderSat Oct 17 2015 - 01:00
