A tone of icy civility is emerging between Simon Harris and the Sinn Féin leader but on Wednesday the air turned positively Arctic
Miriam Lord
Miriam Lord columns
Opposition couldn’t wait to give Harris a good grilling at his first Leaders’ Questions, although there was a marked absence of first-day fireworks
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No sooner had Leo Varadkar made his shock resignation announcement than the Minister was marshalling the troops to support him in his FG leadership bid
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Family, friends, colleagues and the former RTÉ journalist’s beloved dog, Tiger, gathered in Dublin’s Mansion House for the memorial service
Senator Michael McDowell, seen as the principal driving force behind the No campaign, lost the power of speech once the scale of the Government’s loss became apparent. All he could do was purr
Listless Leinster House in referendums voting week shows the only votes that really interest TDs and senators are the ones where seats are up for grabs
Despite Catherine Martin’s valiant efforts, she managed to slam the door in Siún Ní Raghallaigh’s face
Who hasn’t taken a wild figary and sacked somebody live on air when they hadn’t the vaguest notion of doing any such thing before entering the studio?
Two grown men, senior politicians and no strangers to flinging insults in the cut and thrust of the parliamentary fray, lose the plot on the floor of the Dáil
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