After talking up a tough game, Harris delivers a nearly new Cabinet with no blood on the carpetThere were no axes wielded and precious few new faces in the Taoiseach’s newly assembled CabinetWed Apr 10 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Harris’s first ardfheis as leader hears You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet ... a promise or a threat?Faces from Fine Gael’s past and present line out for party’s annual gathering but the time for big talk by the incoming taoiseach is overSun Apr 07 2024 - 17:29
Grizzled ‘republican family’ veterans turn out for IRA bomber Rose Dugdale’s funeralMourners who forgot to wear Easter lilies handed replacements as service plays host to who’s who of republican circlesWed Mar 27 2024 - 21:23
Miriam Lord: Not so much TikToks as tactics are secret behind taoiseach-to-be Simon Harris Miriam Lord: World tilts on its axis as Dáil gets set for Leo Varadar’s replacementSat Mar 23 2024 - 06:00
Speed at which Team Harris left the traps yesterday raised eyebrows around Leinster HouseNo sooner had Leo Varadkar made his shock resignation announcement than the Minister was marshalling the troops to support him in his FG leadership bidFri Mar 22 2024 - 06:00
Leo Varadkar: A Taoiseach not so much resigning as throwing in the towelMiriam Lord on Varadkar resignation: Heather and Helen appeared teary-eyed, a grey-faced Simon Harris looked positively stricken and Paschal’s bottom lip quivered with emotionThu Mar 21 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Tiger whimpers in heart-melting moment at Charlie Bird’s moving memorial serviceFamily, friends, colleagues and the former RTÉ journalist’s beloved dog, Tiger, gathered in Dublin’s Mansion House for the memorial serviceThu Mar 14 2024 - 21:40
Referendum results: Defeated politicos turn shy as selfie-stick howlers live-scream to the looniverseSenator Michael McDowell, seen as the principal driving force behind the No campaign, lost the power of speech once the scale of the Government’s loss became apparent. All he could do was purrSun Mar 10 2024 - 17:53
Theatre-going Fianna Fáilers would like to create a drama of their ownGreens should be celebrating the beginning of summer with the welcome addition of a new Senator Mal O’HaraSat Mar 09 2024 - 06:15
Miriam Lord: Politicians focused on the only vote that matters - and it’s not Friday’sListless Leinster House in referendums voting week shows the only votes that really interest TDs and senators are the ones where seats are up for grabsWed Mar 06 2024 - 21:07
Miriam Lord: Poor Roderic O’Gorman had to open Women’s Day debate to Dáil’s empty brown leather pop-up seatsAlas, Poor Roderic had to open the International Women’s Day debate to the brown leather pop-up seats oppositeTue Mar 05 2024 - 21:31
Healy-Rae, Buttimer and McConalogue try on welly for size in search for political CinderellaDáil gets the boot, big crowd turns out for book launch, Macroom on the map, citizenship ceremonies and Chicken LickenSat Mar 02 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Minister insists she was ‘trying to keep the door open’ Despite Catherine Martin’s valiant efforts, she managed to slam the door in Siún Ní Raghallaigh’s faceWed Feb 28 2024 - 21:39
Miriam Lord: Catherine Martin explains why she went through the RTÉ chair for a short cutWho hasn’t taken a wild figary and sacked somebody live on air when they hadn’t the vaguest notion of doing any such thing before entering the studio?Tue Feb 27 2024 - 21:52
Miriam Lord: Minister would have thrown Siún under a bus, but RTÉ's heavy vehicles are all clapped out from overuseMinister would have thrown Siún Ní Raghallaigh under the bus, but all the heavy vehicles in RTÉ are clapped out from chronic overuseSat Feb 24 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: TD hits boiling point amid claims of ‘talking down’ to ‘a female Deputy’Two grown men, senior politicians and no strangers to flinging insults in the cut and thrust of the parliamentary fray, lose the plot on the floor of the DáilWed Feb 21 2024 - 21:57
Miriam Lord: We came to Leinster House with a heavy heart to remember Michael O’ReganDanny Healy-Rae struggled to find the right words to convey his admiration for Michael O’Regan, ‘one of the best Kerrymen that ever came out of Kerry’Wed Feb 21 2024 - 08:01
Miriam Lord’s Week: FF bristles at accusation of ‘male, stale and pale’ line-upMicheál Martin says he doesn’t ‘propose to exclude men from any further deliberations in public life’ as Thomas Byrne leads referendums campaignSat Feb 17 2024 - 06:30
Miriam Lord: RTÉ executives shut exit package door after pantomime horse has boltedGasps at Oireachtas media committee hearing as figure of €450,000 for exit package for broadcaster’s former chief financial officer is revealedWed Feb 14 2024 - 21:50
Miriam Lord: Leo takes the shine off the Shinners’ RTÉ scorcherPhotogenic Deputy Gould pushes for TV licence to be scrapped as part of SF’s latest policy scorcherTue Feb 13 2024 - 21:54
Miriam Lord: John Bruton is mourned as a loved one and revered statesman at a funeral both public and privateThe Bruton family, the Fine Gael party and former political rivals pay respects to ‘a decent man’ who ‘changed Ireland for the better’Sun Feb 11 2024 - 12:50
Miriam Lord’s Week: Maria Walsh fires early shots in skirmish with Barry Cowen TD for Laois-Offaly sees off Niall Blaney and Lisa Chambers to run for Fianna Fáil in the Midlands North-West constituency in the EU elections, but he won’t be riding into the sunset just yetSat Feb 10 2024 - 06:00
Politicians put differences aside to pay tribute to Bruton, who ‘never lost faith in politics’Ordinary business at the Dáil abandoned as party leaders, Meath representatives and many Fine Gael TDs speak in tributeWed Feb 07 2024 - 22:07
Miriam Lord’s Week: Footwear gaffe sees Micheál Martin ‘do a Garret FitzGerald’Wearing odd shoes an ‘occupational hazard’ for Tánaiste; Peadar Tóibín and Heather Humphreys lock horns over rural regeneration; and a Tardis replica excites Paschal DonohoeSat Feb 03 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: A Senator that’s going nowhere - and a courteous Minister of State who isn’t really thereSenator Tom Clonan wanted the Minister for Health to comment on 150 children with limb deformities and serious spinal issues not getting operations they desperately need. The Minister didn’t show up thoughWed Jan 31 2024 - 21:20
Miriam Lord: Leo reminisces about life in his late 20sWith considerable age comes life experience now that the Taoiseach has turned 45Tue Jan 30 2024 - 20:56
Miriam Lord’s Week: Dobbo the Newsical may wait in wings as RTÉ readies for next PAC curtain callToy Show musical discord, Roy Orbison rings out in Brussels, quiz winner Ned O’Sullivan, Sinn Féin hypocrisy and Trolly CairnsSat Jan 27 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Glacial Varadkar gives scathing response to Harkin’s male migrants commentsLinking Ashling Murphy’s death with the need for a debate about migrants ‘really wrong, deputy … don’t bring our country down into that spiral’Wed Jan 24 2024 - 21:17
Cash proclaimed king as McGrath secures the future of ATMsMinister for Finance introduces Access to Cash Bill as Mary Lou McDonald tries to ruffle Taoiseach’s feathers over ‘vulture’ fund’s bulk purchase of housesTue Jan 23 2024 - 21:28
Miriam Lord’s Week: Fine Gael chinwag gives clues to timing of next election, as David Norris prepares to bow outLashings of ginger beer and one-armed bandits can do nothing to stop the steady leaks within the Chamber walls... and ceilingsSat Jan 20 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Polygamy and throuples in the Dáil chamber? Doesn’t sound like a durable relationshipPoor Roderic O’Gorman’s patience was sorely tested during a debate on the upcoming constitutional referendumsWed Jan 17 2024 - 21:41
Miriam Lord: The Burke family’s first big outing of the year wasn’t a crowd-pullerSean, Martina, Ammi and Isaac were beamed in to the courtroom via video link before Enoch’s hearing - and then beamed out againMon Jan 15 2024 - 21:11
Miriam Lord: Young Scientists are engaging, ingenious, entertaining – and then there’s politicians giving them chaseAt the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, 60 years old this week, wires are attached, diodes connected, buttons are pressed and lights wink on and off. It’s all hereWed Jan 10 2024 - 20:12
A flip-flopping tragicomedy, Biden blarney and the riotous right: Miriam Lord’s review of 2023The holiday season was dominated by the Summer Tubs Sensation – the rest of the year was divided into Before Tubs and Post TubsSat Dec 30 2023 - 00:00
Miriam Lord’s political awards for 2023Gongs go to Timmy Dooley, Mary Robinson, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, Louise O’Reilly, Thomas Pringle, Michael Collins, Mary Lou McDonald and Helen McEntee, but will they be thrilled?Sun Dec 24 2023 - 07:00
Miriam Lord's Week: Minister of State makes a holy show with unfortunate housing typoMiriam Lord: Against the events of Budget 2024 and the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Four Courts started its new legal year with a secular serviceSat Oct 14 2023 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Leo and Micheál do a runner before Mary Lou gets startedBudget debates see a tone of weary resignation from the Coalition leaders in advance of the Opposition buffetingWed Oct 11 2023 - 21:28
Miriam Lord: Annual regurgitation of budget leaks overshadowed by the day’s main barneyKildare Street was en fete all day long with crowd-control barriers but no sign of protestersTue Oct 10 2023 - 21:52
Miriam Lord’s week: Don’t call me Ryan - Ceann Comhairle gets his RTÉ presenters mixed upSeán Ó Fearghaíl did a fine job hosting a fundraising dinner at the Dáil for families of sick children - apart from mistaking compere Brendan Courtney for the other fellaSat Oct 07 2023 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: Gloves come off as the ‘Great Misleader’ and Portobello’s answer to Jack Nicholson clash over students digsThere was far less interest in the minutiae of Sinn Féin’s budget proposals from other parties, who may have had coalition in mindWed Oct 04 2023 - 21:06
Miriam Lord: What’s in the budget? No one knows - it’s a secret, like the Toy ShowTaoiseach promises there’ll be something for everyone in the audience on budget day, but really, he seems as much in the dark as everyone elseTue Oct 03 2023 - 21:09
Miriam Lord’s Week: Absence of flip-flops and Renault cars means the media committee just can’t pull the crowds anymoreThey were suited and booted for their latest meeting but tumbleweed has now replaced Ryan Tubridy at the committeeSat Sept 30 2023 - 05:00
Miriam Lord: TDs call children’s spinal surgeries ‘one of the worst medical scandals in the history of the State’Mary Lou McDonald reveals details of ‘bombshell’ letter suggesting prior knowledge at high level about experimental implantsWed Sept 27 2023 - 21:54
Leo Varadkar offers little comfort to Ordinary Decent ProtestersTaoiseach accused of adopting a ‘let-them-eat-cake’ approach to childcare providers who warn they may have to close due to inadequate funding, excessive regulation and heavy-handed bureaucracyTue Sept 26 2023 - 21:34
Miriam Lord's Week: UCD debate about RTÉ causes legal big-hitter Arthur Cox to have a minor Lit and Hissy fitFormer politician Shane ‘Winston Churchtown’ Ross and NUJ boss Seamus Dooley were the two headline speakersSat Sept 23 2023 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: It was a long, depressing day as dangerously emboldened thugs descended on the DáilActivists’ incoherence and pathetic behaviour could have been hilarious if it were not so seriousWed Sept 20 2023 - 22:16
Miriam Lord at the Ploughing: Where there’s muck, there’s brass necksThe rain poured, paths became surging rivers, and words cascaded from Michael D at the first day of The PloughingTue Sept 19 2023 - 21:49
Miriam Lord visits Comic Con: Ireland’s cosplaying public don garb of fourth-dimension fantasy characters Miriam Lord: Tenth year of Ireland’s biggest fandom event fills the Convention Centre with fantastic outfitsSun Aug 13 2023 - 21:18
Miriam Lord: A steamy D4 lends Ladies’ Day an elegant attitude without a horse in sightMiriam Lord on the Dublin Horse Show: From glam to sweltering, it was all about the ladies at the RDSThu Aug 10 2023 - 21:59
‘Rest in peace, beautiful and gentle soul’: Miriam Lord on the day Sinéad O’Connor was celebrated by those from all backgroundsThey came from far and wide, from all backgrounds and communities, to pay tribute to a singular singer as she was laid to restTue Aug 08 2023 - 21:37
