Miriam Lord: Cribbing aplenty in the Dáil but no pleasing a discombobulated Mary Lou
FG were crowing about saving the live crib after Green grinch Caroline Conroy cancelled it, but Mary Lou McDonald still had plenty to crib about
Mary-Jane O'Connell (2) from Terenure, Bob the border collie, Katie Morris-Roe of the OPW, Minister of State Patrick O'Donovan, Stanley Griffiths (11 months) from Rathmines and IFA president Tim Cullinan at the announcement on Tuesday that the live animal crib is coming to St Stephen's Green on December 8th. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins