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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.

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

John Halligan
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(...)

When Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath started to ask questions about the economy in the Dáil yesterday, the Taoiseach looked almost grateful. Photograph: Alan Betson
No floodgates but same old departure gates

And there’s 14 more weeks of argument to come before the finalised Bill comes before the Dáil

Enda Kenny: “I know you’re bursting with excitement.”
Cabinet of curiosities fails to reveal secrets

Enda Kenny delivered a speech in praise of the dairy industry when all waited on news of draft legislation on abortion

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