Cliff Taylor

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1,456 appearances 11 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

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

Now, I know there have been reports in recent days that have been a good deal more optimistic and guitar saying that, you know, 40, 50 percent of this might be back on stream within months now and that this is all going to happen much more quickly than anticipated.

So we just have to see how that one plays out.

But I think there's a possibility that some of the more apocryphal stories that we've heard over the last few months hopefully aren't going to... It isn't going to be as bad as that.

And LNG, I mean, the interesting thing I suppose is that...

the international gas market is tight and LNG is part of the picture.

And obviously, if there's a shortage of LNG coming out of the Gulf states, then prices for shale gas in America increase, prices for imports to Europe increase.

There's a bit of a bidding war for the ships that are on the sea at the moment, all pushing prices up.

Talking to someone involved in the energy market in the last decade,

couple of days, and he was saying there's two things to watch over the summer in terms of gas prices.

And of course, gas prices are important for Ireland because a lot of households rely on gas, but also we rely on gas to produce our electricity.

And it is kind of the price that is vital for electricity.

So there's two things to watch over the summer.

One is this infrastructure issue and how that plays out.

And there's very little clarity around that.

The other is that the European Commission are going to want, and understandably, member states are going to want to fill their tanks up before the winter in case of any other problems with supply in the months ahead.

And that's going to increase demand.

And the question is, is that going to push up prices of wholesale gas?

And summer is the time that traditionally it's refilled because demand from elsewhere is traditionally lower.

Absolutely, yeah.

So that's one to watch.

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