Leo and Micheál were on a mission to butter up the billionaires in Davos

Two Green scalps and Government blushes more valuable to SF than ineffectual motion

Mattie McGrath and Richard Boyd Barrett couple up to force a vote on NMH motion

‘Three hundred years at a tenner!’ Taoiseach cried, as he brooks no dissent on maternity hospital

FF TD reveals a line of former Dublin lord mayors were also governors of Holles Street

Government lines up clinicians and lawyers to allay fears of religious interference

Ongoing saga of the new National Maternity Hospital has a rather convoluted plot

Sickening display of geniality broke out between rival papers at pandemic book launch

Tony, medic of the pandemic, was given the kid glove treatment. Robert, bureaucratic big cheese, got roasted

Busy week with wet turf and whip-arounds ends with a welcome break for the Greens

The Rural Independent was back bashing the Greens, a role that has served him well

Restraint was never going to catch on with all hell breaking loose over turf cutting rights

Minister makes toe-curling faux pas in exchange with Portuguese counterpart

Chamber listened in silence as Ukrainian president’s chilling words were relayed

Heated exchange over carbon tax ends with Sinn Féin leader needing the smelling salts

Luckily, Tánaiste was in Chile for Paddy’s Day when suspicious package arrived

‘They contain a thing called choline,’ says the Taoiseach. ‘Very good for brain function’

Picking a breakfast roll battle with healthy Micheál is silly even by Dáil standards

Elsewhere, we were doing time on Bernard’s watch, and saw some political engagement

Michael McGrath, standing in for absent Taoiseach, stays calm for Sinn Féin grilling

Tánaiste's outrage is far from manufactured as he asks Michael Healy-Rae to reflect on comment

Two years into Covid, we face further fear and uncertainty, but now Putin is the virus

Independent TD demands ‘extraordinary measures’ to combat fuel and food price rises

Mary Lou McDonald determinedly leads the charge in Dáil in seeking action on fuel costs

Swift coronation of ‘Princess Ivana’ seemingly a foregone conclusion

‘The lads’ stood silently around Alan Kelly as, close to tears, he delivered his shock resignation

Leinster House is united in condemnation of ‘bully and thug’ Vladimir Putin

Minister for Finance and Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman get all academic over carbon tax

Micheál Martin and Mary Lou McDonald stuck in monotonous and unpleasant loop

The Taoiseach is off saving the world, and his stand-in doesn’t really do excitement

Green Party TD not the first to quote lines from old pop songs during Dáil session

Cathaoirleach welcomes Lithuanian ambassador in latest show of international solidarity

Coalition’s Tesco approach to cost-of-living measures gets short shrift from Opposition

Backslapping Fine Gael Senator puts his foot in it while Russia gets lost in the boogie

Dáil again hears of quiet desperation of the housing crisis – and Taoiseach’s one-word solution

Roaring Independents blame ‘evil’ Green Party for rising fuel costs and carbon taxes

In 100 years, there could be deep divisions around marking the centenary of Golfgate

In just under four minutes Judge Mary Fahy dismissed 18 months of absolute madness

Longest-serving Senator makes warmly received speech celebrating Ulysses centenary

Sinn Féin politicians highly affronted when taken to task for organising Storey funeral

Rear admiral Gerry Craughwell prepared to launch secret weapon aka Simon Coveney

Good news about Robert Watt’s salary sustains us through bitter rows in the Dáil

The stools have returned to their rightful place at the counter in the Dáil bar

Micheál Martin relieved to be bringing good news on Ireland’s new Independence Day

Special Dáil session on violence against women was compelling and heart-gripping

Miriam Lord: A young life needlessly ended. The world changed forever for those left behind

Was Varadkar looking for ideas for a more personal handover of power later this year?

We need to stop the ‘entry-level’ aggression in order to save women’s lives

The Supreme Court judge ambled into Golfgate trial with a stack of files under his oxter

Legal heavyweights out in force in Galway – although golf is not exactly their cup of tee

Danny Healy-Rae left to his own device as Zapponegate saw Government rocked by a role

TDs and Senators pose with their pets and Howlin marks a special anniversary

Alan Kelly gets a bout of Christmas spirit and Mattie McGrath gets nostalgic about Big Tom

Giddy mood in the chamber, even talk of Tipperary hospital turned fruity

Shinners are cock-a-hoop, but there’s a touch of ‘house private, no flowers’ about FF and FG

Too much to expect Micheál Martin to conduct Leaders’ Questions wearing great entertainer’s trademark red fez

Taoiseach insists there is no gag and the Government has just decided to ‘co-ordinate’ the lads

President could be on the Bob Cratchit shift as Government leaves its shopping late

Taoiseach says he can ‘see through’ SF TD as masks and mica row dominate debate

No let up over antigen testing and Mica redress scheme

Former minister Finian McGrath joins team Shelbourne FC as public affairs officer

Calls for balls to be dropped is an entertaining distraction, but not a winning proposal

You may have friends in low places, but it’s no guarantee of bagging a prized Golden Swab

Elsewhere this week, Bertie Ahern’s comments on the North go completely south

Histrionics as Micheál Martin and Alan Kelly get their wires crossed over restriction rules

Miriam Lord: Death of poster villain of the crash was always going to generate interest beyond his grieving circle

Getting juniors to do seniors’ dirty work is no laughing matter for straight-talking Rabbitte

David Norris (77) honoured for his work as human rights campaigner and doughty defender of Dublin’s building heritage

If you had a drink for every cliche from Sinn Féin leader, you’d be legless in Leinster House

Fianna Fáil was hoping no one would mention the War of the Buttons two years later

Miriam Lord: He hobnobbed with Boris, Biden and Bezos but met begrudgery in the Dáil

Dáil’s bovine emissions out of control and not expected to plateau any decade soon

This was republicanism with jazz hands and glitter balls as delegates assembled for Sinn Féin’s ardfheis

The red carpet is dusted off and the dogs practise diplomatic etiquette for state visit

NI First Minister slammed by a minister in his church for attending ‘unbiblical’ event

Coveney and Johnson exchange stilted pleasantries at event to mark North centenary

Danny Healy-Rae question takes Martin close to the brink

Covid’s setback now further compromised by a severe case of The Anomalies

The ‘people who get up early in the morning’ were kept waiting as the Tánaiste slept it in

‘The emperors have no clothes,’ said SF leader, before tearing strips off the Coalition

Outbreak of civility as Ministers unveil Budget 2022, with even SF toning it down

Taoiseach is shook on arrival at EU summit, ahead of high-level talks about Cork roads

Dáil Sketch: O’Connor bags a meeting with the Taoiseach as MacSharry forgets who’s who

O’Dea ploughed on with question about Limerick-Cork motorway, tortured by terrible feeling

National Development Plan launch was low-key – unlike the song and dance of 2018

Commemoration for IRA volunteer featured the famous Clonakilty breakfast product

‘I thank the Taoiseach for mansplaining the importance of a public policy issue’

‘I’ve a terrible sense of deja vu,’ Eoin Ó Broin counters as housing plan is debated

As the Dáil expands along with the population, some space will have to be cleared

Róisín Shortall savages Coalition’s lack of political will in implementing Sláintecare

Danny Healy-Rae’s mobile keeps going off, and Alan Kelly is going off his rocker

Brave Barry Ward invites FG colleagues to his Covid-compliant engagement party

Next week the Dáil might start doing some real work

‘She’s like a beacon of light in the area now after everything that has gone on in the last few years’

Olympic finalist cherished and loved by her own in Dublin’s north inner city

Coleen Rooney-esque sleuth unmasks the Dáil squealer while Michael D takes a stand for his holliers

Coalition not quite smelling of roses as Taoiseach visits Botanic Gardens

Health officials quake as brides-to-be march on the department, but where were the frills?

Many publicans opt to wait as clarity over indoor hospitality arrives at 11th hour

Forget Tokyo 2020 – the Convention Centre was where the real athletic action took place