Derval MacDonald

We started talking about a former leading Fine Gael politician.

And you spotted something, I think, Eoin O'Malley's piece, that Simon Harris is avoiding the heat in the fuel protest fallout.

But for how much longer?

But everybody's heard.

haven't been caught up in the aftermath of one of those in Paris where the police come in very, very heavy handed and are armed and everything else.

Is it is it an interesting comparison for you?

Derek, may I kind of throw another divide that's actually been pointed out?

By a number of our listeners, one of them says another point about the protest.

You know, the protesters, she said they were representing the people of Ireland.

Fintan O'Toole, also his colleague, Cathy Sheridan, had made the salient point that all the voices that we heard were men.

that women were largely not seen or heard throughout the crisis.

And it was an interesting feature of the protests.

And that speaks to a lot of the organisations.

And they had got what they wanted.

Mick, all of this is feeding into Micheál Martin's leadership and if I had a tenor

for every newspaper panel I've hosted in this programme in the last five years that was discussing the danger, the demise and possible heaves against Micheál Martin.

What is it?

There's 48 TDs, they need 12, but not one.

He made some declaration about humanity.

What was it?