Miriam Lord’s week: Fine Gael’s mortifyingly cheesy general election videos hit Rock bottom
Noel Rock appreciation video sees Paschal Donohoe gush there is now ‘only one Rock in my life’ as the Dwayne Johnson fan praises his FG colleague
Healy-Raes stuck in a cycle of bike shed remarks – enough to make Ivana Bacik fly off the chain
It’s dog eat dog for parking spaces every Tuesday at the Oireachtas
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’
Agent Cobalt slips off the radar as the truth comes dropping slow from Sinn Féin
Taoiseach 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 election
Ireland is transfixed by the disappearance of a giant of the Golden Age of Sinn Féin
Brian Stanley has gone missing in the political undergrowth, despite noble efforts to find him by media search parties
Mary Lou lauds Sinn Féin’s peerless HR procedures as scandals mount
So why is Mary Lou announcing ‘a complete overhaul’ of these same governance procedures? An abundance of caution or an abundance of caught-out?
Miriam Lord’s Week: Fine Gael’s poster boys undercut party message on timing of election
The temperature is rising in Leinster House: telltale signs of a late November election are mounting, despite the denials
Spy hunt has Senators laughing their heads off on Day of the Cackle
Rightly or wrongly, one name was on everyone’s lips
‘Agent Cobalt’ fills role of Banquo’s ghost as Oireachtas amuses itself
Deputies and senators address each other as ‘comrade’ in corridors as speculation continues about Oireachtas member allegedly recruited as a Russian agent
Mary O’Rourke, in the thick of it again – only this time, for the last time
Forty 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 Martin
Consternation in the corridors of power as all on high election alert
Sinn Féin and the pricey phone pouches, being better than the ‘bloody Tories’ and the diplomacy of singing with 1990s heart-throb Peter Andre
Poll trolling and Sinn Féin baiting all in a day’s work for Taoiseach
Simon 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 lines
We know the score as Bling Cycle shamelessly written to lift electoral spirits
Budget 2025: Chambers of Commerce Jack and Been-there-Donahoed-that Paschal cheerily served up a belly buster budget buffet for the voters
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 Times
OPW’s penchant for wildly expensive lean-tos would put Kubla Khan to shame
Even without the place going nuts about huts, there’s a heightened tension and general giddiness around Leinster House