Miriam Lord: Empty-theatre eeriness as Cabinet takes their seatsConvention Centre houses high drama as political voices cry out in the social distanceTue Jun 30 2020 - 22:31
Miriam Lord: The west is irate as Micheál shifts power balance to CorkThe unprecedented Dáil session in the Convention Centre looked like a theatrical set for a play about a war crimes tribunalSun Jun 28 2020 - 20:49
Miriam Lord: Immovable object beds down with irresistible forceFF and FG could barely wait to get permission to go into government from GreensSat Jun 27 2020 - 01:08
Miriam Lord: Leo keeps it brief for last speech before Dáil packed with about 11 peopleNo stirring words but not a dry seat in the House what with all the extreme disinfectingWed Jun 24 2020 - 21:30
Miriam Lord: Blinking back tears, Charlestown bids farewell to its much-loved Garda ColmFamily, friends and colleagues give community stalwart a loving State funeralSun Jun 21 2020 - 22:05
Miriam Lord: Who will get the big jobs if new coalition gets the Green light?Meanwhile, Eamon Ryan recites poem to weary negotiators during intense late-night sessionSat Jun 20 2020 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Cottage pie and a pint and a trip to the barber of SevilleDáil operatics on behalf of long-haired as pub grub menu mulled over ahead of reopeningWed Jun 17 2020 - 21:54
Miriam Lord: Two meat and veg government finally on the menuLeo tries to seem pleased for potential next taoiseach Micheál, while Eamon buys socksMon Jun 15 2020 - 22:31
Miriam Lord: Some Greens keen to asterisk Deputy R*** out of the pictureWhatever happens now with Eamon Ryan’s leadership, there won’t be any statue of himThu Jun 11 2020 - 22:15
Miriam Lord: Greens in or out? That’s the only question in Leinster HouseFluff is in the air as TDs talk climate change and government formationWed Jun 10 2020 - 22:33
Miriam Lord: Fat cats go bats as captains of industry take over the chamberThe sight of Ibec CEO Danny McCoy in Leo Varadkar’s seat was too much for some TDsTue Jun 9 2020 - 22:16
Miriam Lord: ‘Summer is not lost,’ says Leo but can a government be found?Spurned Ministers carry on as before even though they have lost their seatsThu Jun 4 2020 - 22:05
Miriam Lord: Michael Ring came to praise his department, not bury itMayo TD had the air of a man presiding at the obsequies for his own ministryWed Jun 3 2020 - 22:31
Miriam Lord: Not a bare ankle, hairy knee or a Ming the Trouserless to be seen at Covid committeeFire engine metaphors race to public-private hospital rescueTue Jun 2 2020 - 22:09
Miriam Lord: Reluctant Halligan bangs the nail on the headJohn raises cheers but fails to realise mutual dislike is no bar to unlikely political unionThu May 28 2020 - 22:15
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach is trapped in a Zoom session from hellMary Lou relishes the ‘benefit of great ventilation for all the hot air’ in the chamberWed May 27 2020 - 22:25
Miriam Lord: Leo’s Phoenix pecs just a storm in a bag of cansChestgate. Picnicgate. Posergate. Wickergate. Call it what you will. Varadkar did no harmTue May 26 2020 - 21:17
Miriam Lord: Timing is everything as Alan Kelly blows another gasketLabour leader brings his stopwatch to give out about ‘bonkers’ health guidance for TDsThu May 21 2020 - 22:23
Miriam Lord: Pods for politicians could be the perfect solution‘Unelected’ Zappone takes almost two hours of questions from the floorWed May 20 2020 - 22:13
Miriam Lord: TDs give Princes of Petri Dish very mild, almost pleasant, grillingMathematics of doing Dáil business has reached levels of advanced calculusTue May 19 2020 - 22:18
Miriam Lord: Kelly on Code Red in the search for a Covid-19 villainLabour leader waves ‘explosive’ letter but Mattie McGrath blows his top completelyThu May 14 2020 - 21:57
Miriam Lord: Bickering Dáil flesh-pressers try to 'un-lay' a report about Alan ShatterMotion to remove report critical of Alan Shatter from Dáil record thrown out for nowWed May 13 2020 - 21:30
Miriam Lord: Dr Varadkar’s Chamber of Covid is not for the faint-heartedVaradkar awakes screaming from Leaving Cert nightmare to reality of Covid paymentsThu May 7 2020 - 21:57
Miriam Lord: Ministers without seats populate Kildare Street twilight zoneZappone reports for duty in Leinster House as Ross remains in south Dublin cocoonWed May 6 2020 - 22:17
Miriam Lord: Another Soliloquy on Merrion Street, but there was a daring twistSlow and steady does it as Taoiseach unveils five-stage Covid Lockdown Exit planFri May 1 2020 - 22:42
Miriam Lord: It’s Kerry v China as the Healy-Raes look to the eastKerry TDs want UN to investigate China’s role in spread of coronavirusThu Apr 30 2020 - 22:12
Miriam Lord: Blame the virus - the Dáil is a sad, pathetic little parliament nowDáil Sketch: Move to Convention Centre can’t come too soon for socially distancing TDsThu Apr 23 2020 - 22:09
Miriam Lord: Varadkar leads from the front on Pandemic Republic questionsWill Micheál Martin ever get to sit in Leo’s seat? A political reshuffle of interest only to themThu Apr 16 2020 - 22:19
Miriam Lord: Century of Civil War politics ends with a wheedleSmaller parties give short shrift to Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s shameless wooingWed Apr 15 2020 - 22:06
Miriam Lord: Messages of hope but no bank holiday weekend rollover jackpotThree more weeks of restrictions as Leo quotes over-plundered HeaneyFri Apr 10 2020 - 21:51
Miriam Lord: You cannot cocoon democracy – or can you?Dark day in the Dáil, as questions go unanswered by MinistersThu Apr 2 2020 - 21:43
Miriam Lord: When did we in our wildest dreams envisage a field hospital in Saggart?Ardfheiseanna in Citywest will never be the same againWed Apr 1 2020 - 21:12
Miriam Lord: Vigilant Richard Boyd Barrett keeps the Hungary at bayPeople Before Profit leader ensures that Leo Varadkar will not lead us all up the DanubeTue Mar 31 2020 - 21:00
Miriam Lord: Nation claps its hands for heroic health workersDáil debates emergency Covid-19 Bill, but there’s no debate about the need for speedThu Mar 26 2020 - 22:11
Miriam Lord: Thundering gobshitery while majority ‘busting their backsides’Simon Harris coughed at by middle-aged man ‘who looked pleased with himself’Wed Mar 25 2020 - 21:38
Miriam Lord: Leo calls a nation to double arms as it faces Covid-1916Signs for hope are outlined as the war Cabinet gives an update on The EmergencyTue Mar 24 2020 - 22:31
Miriam Lord: Outbreak of solidarity as Dáil votes to do right thing on coronavirusFew TDs in chamber as social distancing rules apply, but sense of foreboding in the airThu Mar 19 2020 - 22:26
Miriam Lord: Desperate times require extraordinary lines as Leo finds right wordsVaradkar, supposedly a lame duck Taoiseach, enlists a scared nation to face the surgeWed Mar 18 2020 - 07:26
Miriam Lord: A parade in Dublin you could only dream aboutAs leader of the Green Party, Eamon Ryan was official ruler of Ireland for St Patrick’s DayTue Mar 17 2020 - 23:16
Miriam Lord: Time stands still for Leo ahead of sanitised Trump meetingVaradkar sparks run on toilet roll back home before Dr Donald assures us virus is going awayThu Mar 12 2020 - 22:28
Miriam Lord: Will Donald touch the shamrock bowl if Leo has touched it first?Coronavirus made Leo a Riverdance no-show, saving himself for germaphobe DonaldWed Mar 11 2020 - 22:23
Miriam Lord: Seanad candidates get their campaigns in full swingRuth Coppinger goes on the attack while Justin Warfield warbles some old tunesSat Mar 7 2020 - 02:23
Miriam Lord: What exactly is Alan Kelly doing to a Fianna Fáil senator outside the Dáil?Man who hopes to take over from Howlin unapologeticThu Mar 5 2020 - 22:19
Miriam Lord: The gloves are off as William and Kate launch charm offensiveIt seems the Cambridges were well briefed on the political situation here in a non-partisan wayTue Mar 3 2020 - 22:16
Miriam Lord: Leinster House plinth posturing has reached ridiculous proportionsNegotiators declare what it might take to consider lending their brilliance to an administrationSat Feb 29 2020 - 01:28
Miriam Lord: Lady Lou crowned the People’s Taoiseach at Liberty HallAnother earthquake moment at Sinn Féin rally on a mission to disprove seismology isn’t everythingWed Feb 26 2020 - 06:42
Miriam Lord’s Week: A grand coalition of grudges beckonsAn unholy marriage of FF and FG would badly squeeze Cabinet space for both partiesSat Feb 22 2020 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Dáil’s pessimistic return fails to solve leaders’ questionsEarly celebrations give way to gloom as a stable government remains a distant hopeThu Feb 20 2020 - 21:58
Miriam Lord: Posturing, preening and photo-ops dominate 33rd Dáil prelimsNew TDs shown around the Dáil chamber but all the action is on the plinthWed Feb 19 2020 - 22:22
Miriam Lord: New TDs have a great welcome for themselvesOireachtas staff supplied with handy mugshots of new TDs as parties descendSat Feb 15 2020 - 02:04