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Miriam Lord: It was Fianna Fáil’s DUBU Day: Disastrous, Unbelievable, Bizarre, Unprecedented

Jim Gavin posters will be down off lamp-posts quicker than the unauthorised tricolours above them

Big Jim moves to dispel any notion that colleagues are at budget loggerheads

The run up to the budget this year has been unusually quiet. Except within the merciless confines of the Mixed Ministerial Arts octagon in Government Buildings

Martin, resplendent in his single transferable suit, was not ready for Bike Shed Part II

This was one anniversary Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald wasn’t going to miss

Handbag at the Dáil for Maria Steen as her Áras run comes to an end

Catherine Connolly continues her duties as a TD while Heather Humphreys hits the campaign trail ladder

Maria Steen, opponent of marriage equality and abortion, championed as a symbol of choice

Independent Ireland took irony to new level in statement of support for presidential hopeful

People discarded jackets in the heat, but Princess Anne was clad in scarf and gloves

British media outlets described the visit as possibly Michael D’s last engagement with a ‘senior royal’

Eager Ministers line up for their spending money as Coalition announces National Development Plan

The rejigged NDP is ‘unprecedented in scale and scope’, said the Tánaiste. It’s also a bit light on detail

Miriam’s Lord’s Week: The gang’s (almost) all here for the Healy-Rae hooley

Junior Minister Michael hosted a lunch in Leinster House to thank his general election team, but TD brother Danny didn’t attend

Catherine Connolly’s Áras campaign begins with a very ‘soft launch’

Independent TD got a cheer from the Gaza protesters corralled beyond Buswell’s Hotel

Minister for Health makes emergency intervention after Taoiseach’s joke ripples through the House

Danny Healy-Rae makes impassioned plea on behalf of Killorglin publicans ahead of Puck Fair

Taoiseach turned tables on the Opposition when they least expected it with moment of clarity

Proposed increase in personal injury awards has been divisive, yet Micheál Martin took probing question in his stride

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 costs

New sheriff 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

Miriam Lord: ‘Taoiseach, do you do a weekly shop?’ It’s not even funny to think about

Imagine 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 crisp

‘Ceann Comhairle, how long is this going to continue?’: Dáil interruptions starting to wreck Taoiseach’s head

Verona Murphy is not for extending response time despite interruptions much to Martin’s annoyance

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’

Phantom cigarette puffer of Merrion Street prompts chortles in Dáil

Taoiseach Micheál Martin spots Minister – who had supposedly quit – smoking outside amid proposal to make Leinster House a tobacco-free zone

Micheál pummelled from all sides over Government’s latest plan to ease rental crisis

As the Taoiseach batted away criticism of Coalition’s rent reforms, he may have asked himself, ‘what would the king of Jordan do?’

Hacks in Montrose must be hallucinating about much greenery in their rundown newsroom

Questions about the €3.5m IT fiasco, ‘groupthink’ and that promo ad didn’t match the roasting of two years ago over Tubsgate

A mother who refused to take no for an answer - for 13 years, 9 months and 20 days

Nearly 14 years after Shane O’Farrell’s needless death, the Minister of Justice presents a public apology

It’s a strange day in the Dáil when a schoolgirl makes the Government squirm with embarrassment

Cara Darmody made her presence felt as Taoiseach signalled intention to tackle delays for children awaiting assessment

It’s been like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds on Merrion Street since the sun started to shine

Mooney Goes Wild should do a programme from Leinster House

Sinn Féin’s ‘Mr Angry’ meets immovable object that is Micheál

Martin has measure of Pearse Doherty and Co as Dáil standoff continues over delayed report into children’s hip surgery

Hip operations uproar leaves Taoiseach in a bind

Micheál Martin was concerned enough about impending draft report to say ‘the implications are disturbing’

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 Dáil

Tsar Brendan the Terrible Big Salary, that mild-mannered banker set to pulverise those planners

Only one man can ruthlessly deliver and scale up like a mutant amphibious accountant in the country’s drains

Gerry Adams takes jurors in his defamation case against BBC on a very long stroll down memory lane

Former Sinn Féin leader describes formative years in 1960s Belfast to High Court in Dublin

Miriam Lord’s Easter awards: Best Varadkar tribute act, Jemser balance respected and outstanding Dáil dust-up

From the Burke family to Mattie McGrath and Michael Lowry, here are the winners of Miriam Lord's Easter awards

When is a Soc Dem TD not a Soc Dem TD?

Kerfuffle over the exact status of Eoin Hayes provided light relief on a doomy day of worry about tariffs and the economy

Miriam Lord: Normal hostilities set aside as colleagues wish Richard Boyd Barrett well

A rare stillness fell on the chamber as TDs and Ministers wished Richard Boyd Barrett well following his cancer diagnosis

Miriam Lord: The drama of the Opposition’s walkout lost its potency when government backbenchers also bailed

A few Government buckeroos squawked their disapproval as Mary Lou and her boys made for the double doors to the right of Verona

Trump’s tariffs take wrecking ball to perfectly good Dáil row

Ceann Comhairle went to Dunne and Crescenzi during debate, but this was never going to be her last supper

Verona Murphy going nowhere as Dáil warring factions dig in

Hostilities resumed - quietly - on Wednesday over speaking rights row, with grim-faced TDs glowering across the chamber

Michael Lowry gives masterclass in smug ingratitude amid Dáil chaos over speaking time

Two-digit TD for Tipperary gloated dismissively as Opposition raged over Ceann Comhairle’s decision to bring Dáil confrontation over speaking rights to abrupt end

Taoiseach’s Oval Office whirl goes pear-shaped as Sinn Féin leader rounds on him

Micheál Martin accused of ‘sniggering’ at Ireland’s housing crisis and dodging Gaza issue during White House audience with Trump

Miriam Lord: Maga senator Sharon Keogan would only love to take Taoiseach’s place at shamrock jamboree

Independent senator wrote to the White House seeking a St Patrick’s Day invite

Will Micheál Martin man up and give man-baby Trump a good talking-to?

Everybody has an opinion on what Taoiseach should say to US president during his upcoming visit to the White House

Micheál Martin urged to step back from the precipice and warned of ‘uncharted waters’

Opposition groups have still not got over ‘the Document of Destruction’

Taoiseach erupts at Sinn Féin lecturing others about doing the right thing while canonising IRA slaytriots

Ceann Comhairle tells Micheál Martin to stop carrying on like a child following goading by Pearse Doherty over Michael Lowry

Miriam Lord: We are not ones to gossip. But wait till you hear this

‘It’s all rather embarrassing. People are talking and not in a good way’

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