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Miriam Lord

Miriam Lord

Miriam Lord is a colour writer and columnist with The Irish Times. She writes the Dail Sketch and her review of political happenings (Miriam Lord’s Week) appears every Saturday. She also covers major news and sporting events. Miriam joined The Irish Times in 2006, having previously worked for The Irish Independent. Her awards include Print Journalist of the Year and she was named the NNI Political Journalist of the year in 2011 and 2012.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore was standing in yesterday for the Taoiseach, who was in Brussels explaining that an Apple a day helps the multinationals stay. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
Gilmore goes out on a Labour limbo for Shatter

Dáil sketch: Minister for Justice deflects questions on his starring role in the use of unrecorded Garda information

Mick Wallace and his sidekick Clare Daly were furious with Alan Shatter. But they got no answers
Shatter gets through the gap and away

Dail sketch: street-fighting Minister comes away from his bout over Mick Wallace controversy largely unscathed

Jerry Buttimer TD speaks to perinatal psychiatrists Dr Anthony McCarthy and Dr Joanne Fenton outside Leinster House yesterday. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Doctors differ, patients fly and majority in Leinster House give abortion Bill a wide berth

Oireachtas hearings matter little to the women leaving Ireland for abortion

Spain’s Agriculture Minister Miguel Arias Canete (left) talks Simon Coveney at the start of an EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council at the EU Council in Brussels on Monday. Photograph: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP
Super Simon Coveney earns the plaudits for marathon talks on fishing deal

“That man is a machine!” said one tweeter quoted in German newspaper Die Welt

Enda Kenny: his desk is cluttered with files and yet more photos and souvenirs. It is a minimalist’s nightmare
Rare sighting of Taoiseach’s knick-knacks

Miriam Lord’s Dáil Sketch

Queen Elizabeth at the English Market in Cork on her 2011 visit. News of another visit next year gives ample opportunity too to get the bunting ready and prepare menus for the street parties. Photograph: Reuters
Necktie proves a knotty problem for Dáil visitor

A Finn in the press gallery wasn’t to know that a two-tiered sartorial system operates in the Dáil chamber

Marie Louise O’Donnell: overcome with admiration for the Taoiseach
In awe of a ‘brave’ leader’s sanity

Enda Kenny is a talented, intelligent, communicative and brave leader – at least in the gushing opinion of Senator Marie Louise O’(...)

Alex White, Minister of State at the Department of Health. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
White can do no wrong in Enda’s eyes

Calamity incommunicado

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Sunlight fails to illuminate Kildare Street

First austerity, then suicide and finally, abortion. By the time the third question was through, all we were fit for was a panel o(...)

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