Miriam Lord’s Week: ‘What hold does Michael Lowry have over them?’ - the question everyone is askingNo one can figure out why Micheál Martin and Simon Harris are going out on a limb despite his controversial past and divisive Dáil presenceSat Feb 01 2025 - 06:00
Unveiling of new junior Ministers underlines Dáil sausage-fest Women junior Ministers were placed in the front row at the Leinster House photocall but it fooled no one, as just six of the 23 appointees are womenThu Jan 30 2025 - 06:00
Great purge of Parnell Square turned out to be weak Milk of Magnesia effort in the endReports of a major clear-out were greatly exaggerated. The party’s frontbench looks very familiarWed Jan 29 2025 - 06:00
The Michael Lowry issue is still unresolved and may escalate. GUBU’s the word for it‘Unprecedented’ is overused, but even veterans were hard-pressed to find another way on Wednesday to describe the chaotic scenes in the DáilSat Jan 25 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Micheál Martin finally gets his moment among the throngs after being thwarted by CovidIn a rare opportunity for party political celebration, Fianna Fáilers gathered for the traditional Yahooing of the BossFri Jan 24 2025 - 06:00
Storm Lowry lands in Dáil Éireann - and it’s a miracle the roof stayed onChaotic scenes in the chamber unfold around coalition of Tweedledum, Tweedledee and TweedledealThu Jan 23 2025 - 06:00
Flashback Central as Fianna Fáil celebrates return of the good timesWhile the FFers raise a toast to Micheál, no one wants to hear the naysayers giving out about the Raegional Independents having their cake and eating itMon Jan 20 2025 - 06:00
Chaos for coalition colleagues as RIGs and Raegionals openly identify as part of oppositionThe Healy-Rae brothers refer to working in government, even if Danny wants to be able to bark questions at that government as if still sitting on the opposition benchesSat Jan 18 2025 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s review of the year: Shock resignations, ruptured relations and an over-eager new TaoiseachA year of change heralds a future of more of the sameSat Dec 28 2024 - 06:00
The jawdropper, the quickest split, the good turn: Miriam Lord’s 2024 Political AwardsA political year of shocks and surprises somehow ended up as it began: with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in cahoots. The politician of the year may have had something to do with itSat Dec 21 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Verona smiled when elected Ceann Comhairle, but didn’t utter a word. Another firstWellwishing all around for new Ceann Comhairle as the two Gentlemen of Verona stand aside onThu Dec 19 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: A fitting farewell to Dickie Rock as ‘king of Cabra’ gets full house for his final gigFuneral of star of the showband era took place in Cabra, where he sang in the choir as a boy before becoming one of Ireland’s most beloved entertainersThu Dec 12 2024 - 20:18
Miriam Lord: Fianna Fáil seeks royal treatment as Simon and Micheál see the crown jewelsMiriam Lord: Scotland shows off its crown jewels to an Irish contingency, putting haggis, rather than government formation, on the menuSat Dec 07 2024 - 06:00
Gift-wrapped Simon Harris switches on Dáil Christmas tree lights in glow of peace and harmonyFestive cheer illuminates Government Buildings as ‘all speechified out’ Taoiseach makes brief addressWed Dec 04 2024 - 06:00
For much of the time in the RDS, one of the big questions was: what the hell is going on? Gerry Hutch barrelled up to the RDS, causing a media scrum; he may have lost the election but he knew he was in charge at the countMon Dec 02 2024 - 07:10
From handbags at dawn to the Kanturk Disaster: the campaign’s highs, lows, and outright clangers Miriam Lord: From the grand entrance of a baby girl for Holly Cairns to slagging off teachers and annoying the RSA, the 2024 campaign had its share of highlightsSat Nov 30 2024 - 06:00
Mary Lou gives a lesson in cavassing in CarlowSinn Féin leader’s ‘chatty’ campaign trail style a world away from Dáil barbsThu Nov 28 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s debate rankings: Did Harris get a shot at redemption? Did Martin or McDonald land a knockout blow?General election: Harris needed shot at redemption while other two just needed to get themselves noticed in RTÉ debate which covered a crowded list of topicsWed Nov 27 2024 - 06:53
The tears came from an unexpected quarter. Conor McGregor, holding his mother’s hand, gulping for air and cryingOver the two week hearing the events of that day in December 2018 were laid bare in the most raw and humiliating detail for Nikita HandSat Nov 23 2024 - 06:00
Usual hams hogging most of the limelight: Miriam Lord’s election debate leaders’ ratings Debate meandered for over two hours with the Simon and Micheál tag-team combining to stick it to the Shinners and anyone else who threatened to wreck their brotherly buzzTue Nov 19 2024 - 07:11
‘I mean, the cheek of him!’: Miriam Lord boards Blueshirt One with Simon HarrisPaschal tells the faithful ‘our economy is currently in a great place’Mon Nov 18 2024 - 06:00
Joy is a word Conor McGregor returns to again and again. Nikita Hand paints a much darker pictureMixed martial arts fighter fondly remembers bedroom encounter on second day in the witness boxThu Nov 14 2024 - 22:14
Conor McGregor stuns High Court onlookers with evidence about night of alleged sexual assault Mixed martial arts fighter begins evidence with graphic account of events on night Nikita Hand alleges she was sexually assaulted by McGregor and another manWed Nov 13 2024 - 22:21
Green Party prepared to grit teeth and re-enter coalition with new-found foesElection 2024: Serving with tormentors; buses for bingo and pints; political deal-breakers and ... baby on the wayWed Nov 13 2024 - 06:00
Fine Gael breaks unspoken ‘don’t frighten the horses’ campaign ruleIt was like a Mills and Boon break-up as political singletons Simon Harris and Micheál Martin and others battled it out for the public’s affectionTue Nov 12 2024 - 06:00
RIP FF-FG-Green Coalition, 2020-2024 - Miriam Lord’s look back at the GovernmentThree taoisigh, five budgets and a global pandemic: in unprecedented times it was a government like no otherSat Nov 09 2024 - 06:00
Mischievous Micheál cheekily grabs the GE24 champagne bottle from under Simon’s noseSimon Harris changes his tie to green as he and Micheál Martin wrestle with the champagne bottle to launch Election ‘24Thu Nov 07 2024 - 06:00
‘You’re a disgrace’: Dáil air turns blue after Danny Healy-Rae gets personal with Paul MurphyGed Nash gets the boot even before a vote is cast as chamber hears plenty unparliamentary languageTue Nov 05 2024 - 21:52
Miriam Lord’s week: Fine Gael’s mortifyingly cheesy general election videos hit Rock bottomNoel Rock appreciation video sees Paschal Donohoe gush there is now ‘only one Rock in my life’ as the Dwayne Johnson fan praises his FG colleagueSat Oct 26 2024 - 06:00
Healy-Raes stuck in a cycle of bike shed remarks – enough to make Ivana Bacik fly off the chainIt’s dog eat dog for parking spaces every Tuesday at the OireachtasThu Oct 24 2024 - 06:41
Sting is gone from the Dáil exchanges as they wait for Harris to fire the starting gun Mary Lou McDonald does not have a GUBU moment but a FUSA moment - a ‘Full, Unequivocal, Sincere Apology’Wed Oct 23 2024 - 06:00
Agent Cobalt slips off the radar as the truth comes dropping slow from Sinn FéinTaoiseach and his wife celebrate his birthday by going to see the musical Hamilton, which contains the perfect chorus for a young and hungry leader on the brink of his first general electionSat Oct 19 2024 - 06:00
Ireland is transfixed by the disappearance of a giant of the Golden Age of Sinn FéinBrian Stanley has gone missing in the political undergrowth, despite noble efforts to find him by media search partiesThu Oct 17 2024 - 06:00
Mary Lou lauds Sinn Féin’s peerless HR procedures as scandals mountSo why is Mary Lou announcing ‘a complete overhaul’ of these same governance procedures? An abundance of caution or an abundance of caught-out?Wed Oct 16 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Fine Gael’s poster boys undercut party message on timing of electionThe temperature is rising in Leinster House: telltale signs of a late November election are mounting, despite the denialsSat Oct 12 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Spy hunt has Senators laughing their heads off on Day of the CackleRightly or wrongly, one name was on everyone’s lipsThu Oct 10 2024 - 06:00
‘Agent Cobalt’ fills role of Banquo’s ghost as Oireachtas amuses itselfDeputies and senators address each other as ‘comrade’ in corridors as speculation continues about Oireachtas member allegedly recruited as a Russian agentWed Oct 09 2024 - 06:00
Mary O’Rourke, in the thick of it again – only this time, for the last timeForty years in politics. A trailblazer. When she arrived in Leinster House in 1981, she wasn’t ‘just there to make up the numbers’, says Micheál MartinMon Oct 07 2024 - 21:31
Miriam Lord’s Week: Consternation in the corridors of power as all on high election alertSinn Féin and the pricey phone pouches, being better than the ‘bloody Tories’ and the diplomacy of singing with 1990s heart-throb Peter AndreSat Oct 05 2024 - 06:00
Poll trolling and Sinn Féin baiting all in a day’s work for TaoiseachSimon Harris pained by assertions that his budget blowout was something other than a serious, sober annual financial statement with no ulterior motive lurking between the linesThu Oct 03 2024 - 06:00
We know the score as Bling Cycle shamelessly written to lift electoral spiritsBudget 2025: Chambers of Commerce Jack and Been-there-Donahoed-that Paschal cheerily served up a belly buster budget buffet for the votersWed Oct 02 2024 - 06:00
The Leinster Lawn bike shed of 1990s: Remember Haughey’s helipad?Plus: Leo unleashes his inner Shinner and throws a winners’ dinner and sang Dublin in the Rare Ould TimesSat Sept 28 2024 - 06:00
OPW’s penchant for wildly expensive lean-tos would put Kubla Khan to shameEven without the place going nuts about huts, there’s a heightened tension and general giddiness around Leinster HouseThu Sept 26 2024 - 06:00
Flippin’ ‘learnings’, they turn up like a bad penny whenever another billion is flushed down the panWhen under attack for the Children’s Hospital fiasco, Paschal Donohoe takes flak for Simon Harris - who is in New York - and pulls the word ‘learnings’ from the first aid boxWed Sept 25 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s week: Dáil return a damp squib as departure lounge fills with exiting TDs Taoiseach Simon Harris surprises Paschal Donohoe with chocolate gateau as youthful Minister for Public Expenditure celebrates milestone 50th birthdaySat Sept 21 2024 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Expect back-pedalling as committees gear up to tackle the bonkers bicycle shed of Leinster LawnThe avant-mudgarde glass and steel erection is already shaping up to be a bucket-list destination for aficionados of Irish politicsThu Sept 19 2024 - 06:00
Daniel Wiffen sings and Kellie Harrington takes the biscuit at Irish Olympic homecoming Simon Harris sounded giddy with excitement as large crowds gathered at the GPOMon Aug 12 2024 - 21:40
Miriam Lord: Sixty years ago, the clerics denounced Edna O’Brien. On Saturday she was welcomed homeA flotilla of lake boats carried mourners to Holy Island, where the ‘brilliant, wild, soaring and indomitable’ Irish writer was laid to restSat Aug 10 2024 - 22:42
Kellie Harrington the gem of Diamond Park as crowd roars on their double Olympic championOlympics 2024: Dublin inner-city neighbourhood once more savours a stunning success by boxer Kellie Harrington on the world sporting stageWed Aug 07 2024 - 07:29
Finally apologetic, Derry O’Rourke’s now a paltry old man who doesn’t deserve to sleep at nightJudge Melanie Greally at Central Criminal Court praises rape survivor for her conduct amid O’Rourke’s trial and on her victim impact statement, confronting abuser with the consequences of his actionsThu Aug 01 2024 - 06:00
