Ciarán Hancock

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock · Will a Middle East peace deal make any difference to inflation? · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

A 60-day ceasefire has been agreed to iron out the fine details of the agreement, but hopes are high that this will end the conflict, see the Strait of Hormuz open fully for shipping and result in lower energy prices going forward.

So I began by asking Cliff Taylor to outline the key elements of the peace deal and how they might impact on the Irish economy.

Here we go.

A ceasefire during that time.

And a lot of questions as to whether the US is putting in place an investment fund, potentially for $300 billion.

Now, Trump has said no, he said they're not going to invest 10 cents in the rebuild of Iran.

And they've come down significantly in recent days.

Can I just,

And say one thing to you, Gabriel McClough gave a speech yesterday, sort of talking to me, giving the background, if you like, to the ECB rate rise, which was announced last week and the inflation outlook and stuff like that.

And he said there are two effects from what's happened in the Middle East.

One was the immediate one on the fuel price shock, which we saw in the four courts and the government intervened and so forth.

But he said there's been a secondary shock now.

The initial energy shock is spreading and these patterns are broad based across all sectors, retail services, industry and construction.

So we're seeing price creep.

in all of those sectors in Ireland is a pretty expensive economy as it is at the moment.

So we don't, you know, we don't need that.

But he said, another concern is the potential for long-term energy supply disruption relating to the destruction of infrastructure, of which we have little clarity at this stage.

In terms of the... They're hardly increasing in July now if there's a 60-day ceasefire.

I would have thought... To allow these talks to complete.

2022, of course, was the Ukraine.

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