Miriam Lord: I’m a Politician - Don’t Kick Me Out of Here!It’s getting TV-show hectic in Leinster HouseFri Dec 05 2014 - 03:00
Miriam Lord: Mary Lou detonates alleged Ansbacher listGive Mary Lou McDonald a mirror and she’d upstage herselfThu Dec 04 2014 - 07:56
Miriam Lord: The scene of this man’s death seems more shocking than the manner of itJonathan Corrie was not the first homeless person to die in Dublin, he won’t be the lastWed Dec 03 2014 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Lucinda Creighton plans start (and end) of her new partyReform Alliance leader proposes a first: a party that will throw itself out of powerFri Nov 28 2014 - 21:52
Miriam Lord: the ‘big people’ don’t believe each otherNoisy protests, water charges, and children from Monaghan who know better than their eldersThu Nov 27 2014 - 01:00
Dail Sketch: Trapped media veteran a captive audience for TDsGovernment in complete flap over deepening crisis, Opposition sensing blood and hard left believing Revolution finally about to dawnWed Nov 26 2014 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: tedious TDs no longer fit to be tiedLeinster House in the 1970s sounds like great funSat Nov 22 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Coalition willing to do anything to get out of water charges mess‘They were all ears - remorseful and ready to hear what representatives of the people had to say’Thu Nov 20 2014 - 06:00
Miriam Lord: Kenny in search of miracle to part red seaTaoiseach faces anxious wait to see if water charge measures can restore calmWed Nov 19 2014 - 06:00
Miriam Lord’s week: Sinn Féin sits-in as Bertie Ahern rises for 1916Shane Ross found out it can sometimes be hard to spend a penny in Leinster HouseSat Nov 15 2014 - 16:48
Miriam Lord: Adams plays victim over Cahill allegations, to Dáil disgustNone in Dáil other than his followers bought the Sinn Féin leader’s defenceThu Nov 13 2014 - 00:59
Miriam Lord: Wait until next Wednesday when Enda will part the watersThere are only seven more sleepless nights until Enda Kenny tells allWed Nov 12 2014 - 01:00
Callan gets his kicks in the Dáil barThe ICA ladies were disappointed that they didn't get to meet the Taoiseach in Leinster House. Luckily, a well-known comedy impressionist was on hand to cheer them upSat Nov 08 2014 - 01:00
Enda Kenny and Irish Water will give you clarity. Real soonFor a man who has called for ‘clarity and certainty’, Enda Kenny made a poor job of itThu Nov 06 2014 - 12:07
Gerry Adams unlikely to get bitten at Big Apple fundraiserJoan Collins claims water charge is Government’s poll tax and will bring down KennyWed Nov 05 2014 - 01:00
Saturday’s water protest was like St Patrick’s Day but minus the drinkThere were parades and fancy dress, but there was also anger on the streetsMon Nov 03 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Banking film is a guaranteed scary Halloween spectacleZombie banks, dead flies and Fran from Love/Hate – ‘The Guarantee’ is Nightmare on Kildare Street, without the spine-tingling suspenseSat Oct 25 2014 - 09:52
Miriam Lord: My days watching the watchmenHer columns, and now book, help bring the Dáil to life for ‘Irish Times’ readers but Miriam Lord insists she is no punditSat Oct 25 2014 - 01:00
This was not Leaders’ Questions as we know it – it was an unprecedented situation in the DáilTaoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader put Sinn Féin leader in spotlight over Cahill allegationsThu Oct 23 2014 - 08:00
Sinn Féin leader’s infallibility questioned in the DáilUsual suspects refrain from heckling, aware of sensitivity of the subjectWed Oct 22 2014 - 16:44
Miriam Lord’s Week: Burton swoops on Bernard BroganDublin footballer Bernard Brogan swamped by fans in Dail bar – and by TánaisteSat Oct 18 2014 - 09:04
Noonan’s nod to Nidge amid Dáil poetry slamDavid Norris gives them chapter and verse over Wilde waysThu Oct 16 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: lipgloss on as general election wooing beginsIt’s a PR budget from the Corner Boys - P is for Prudent and R is for ResponsibleWed Oct 15 2014 - 08:43
Proud man of ‘the soil’ looks set to stir up DáilThere was a good crowd – lots of men with huge arms and farmers’ tansMon Oct 13 2014 - 08:53
Dáil Sketch: Enda’s galley slaves send him in well armed on the Sinn Féin budgetAdams in good mood for someone who has just found out he has to pay water chargesThu Oct 09 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Enda belts around the byways to cheer the troopsThe Taoiseach is too rapid a canvasser for any dissent to catch upTue Oct 07 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Fierce water fight for byelection prizeAs frontrunners Cathal King and Paul Murphy slug it out, the other candidates in Dublin South West are in danger of drowningMon Oct 06 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Non-invasive procedure can get your credentials up to scratchHealth Minister reaches dizzy new heights of Hawkins HouseSat Oct 04 2014 - 01:00
Ever so humble Big Phil eases off on the swagger and wins new friendsIt soon became clear he had done his homework. He was impressively well-preparedFri Oct 03 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Enda fed up with flawed system where those who want to serve take abuseA sick and tired Taoiseach tries to explain the inner workings of Fine GaelThu Oct 02 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Imma-culate selection not without sinWhatever that sin might be, the Taoiseach remains remarkably unaware of what it is. But he has apologised nonethelessWed Oct 01 2014 - 12:52
Miriam Lord: Even selfie-aware Enda breaks a shweatTaoiseach’s senior conventional stroke was a lively addition to the PloughingFri Sept 26 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord: Ploughing, celebrities and the papal nuncioAlmost 125,000 turn up at Carter family farm in Co Laois for day two of ‘the Ploughing’Thu Sept 25 2014 - 01:01
Miriam Lord: Noonan leaves FG TDs rolling in the aislesDáil Sketch: deadpan Minister for Finance targets Sinn Féin ‘red-line issues’Wed Sept 24 2014 - 11:32
Miriam Lord: A handy day to ease the Dáil back to irrelevanceDáil sketch: A new season starts but the transfer window remains openThu Sept 18 2014 - 07:19
Labour starts the day with a smile as Micheál makes coalition overturesBurton’s leadership style impresses as think-in a fairly relaxed and pleasant affairWed Sept 17 2014 - 01:00
Struggling in the opinion polls? Shoot the entire parliamentary partyWhatever about its think-in, Labour grabbed the prize for the cheesiest family photoTue Sept 16 2014 - 01:00
Enda keeps an eye on Leo – his lion in pussycat clothingMiriam Lord stalks the corridors of the Fota Island Hotel in Cork at the Fine Gael think-inSat Sept 13 2014 - 01:00
FG loads up on ammunition for campaignMiriam Lord: Forget the Five Point Plan – the 94 Initiatives are where it’s at nowFri Sept 12 2014 - 06:18
An ordinary and extraordinary farewell to Albert ReynoldsGifts offered by the former taoiseach’s grandchildren summed up his full lifeTue Aug 26 2014 - 01:00
A lion in business and politics, a pussycat at homeAchievements, not least his role in the peace process, a fine legacy for such a short spell at the topFri Aug 22 2014 - 01:00
Callely was a man blinded by his dazzling self-beliefFrom the moment he landed in Leinster House as a backbench TD, he adopted the swagger of successTue Jul 29 2014 - 01:00
And the end-of-term awards for political prowess go to . . .We can’t let our representatives go on a very long summer break without acknowledging their outstanding contributionSat Jul 26 2014 - 08:16
MacGill's Big Thinkers keep asking the same questionMiriam Lord: In terms of news interest Burton was relegated to second by Frank FlanneryTue Jul 22 2014 - 01:00
Miriam Lord’s Week: Would Enda break the law? You bet!As Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty helpfully pointed out, a law passed in 1931 makes it illegal to advertise the odds of any football match in the StateSat Jul 19 2014 - 09:23
Summer break-up of Dáil for the birdsSeanad told Dublin seagulls have lost the run of themselves completelyFri Jul 18 2014 - 01:00
Irish lessons not learned yet as FG women seetheMiriam Lord: Enda Kenny skips off to Brussels after saying he has every confidence in Joe McHugh’s language skillsThu Jul 17 2014 - 01:01
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach now faces wrath of the Angry BirdsKenny overlooked his female TDs’ claims for junior ministriesWed Jul 16 2014 - 01:00
Enda, Joan and the new Cabinet are politely asked to move a little to the leftThe long-awaited reshuffle brings just the barest structural alterationsSat Jul 12 2014 - 01:01