Ellen Coyne

Alan Coyne, thank you so much.

Good morning, Pat.

It is, but I suppose there's kind of a link with a lot of the stories that you mentioned there, maybe except for Daniel Kinnan.

Like if you were to take the Sindo splash, which, as you mentioned, is talking about how up to 500 Aer Lingus flights could be cut from its routes over the next few weeks, combined with some reporting in the Business Post about how there's some estimations that Europe might only have six weeks left.

of jet fuel left.

Now, obviously, apparently we have a reserve of 70 days worth of jet fuel in Ireland.

But all of that is actually connected to the politics stories that are in the paper today, the fallout from, I don't know, could you call it a heave, a mini heave, or maybe like a kittenish push from some of the Fianna Fáil backbenchers towards their leaders.

Like all of that fallout is basically connected to one political decision that was taken in Washington a number of weeks or months ago.

And it will be the ordinary people that deal with the fallout, whether it's rising cost of living or whether it's their summer holidays.

Yeah.

And I did see a theory that was reported in the Sunday Times as well that had it not been for the three young Turks who came out with that letter this week, Derek Leary, who maybe has been a little bit overlooked, might have been able to swell enough momentum himself to...

He came out of that really well.

And I mean, it was nearly like when people were talking about Derek Leary's role in that, everyone was prefacing it with how well got he is, how popular he is among the party.

But I think if you're somebody that doesn't want Micheál Martin to be the leader, if the Taoiseach is reading the papers this morning, the only thing that's obvious to him is that no challenger is ready to take him on for the moment.

The Sindo is talking about how...

And his critics are saying, oh, he'll be given until 2027.

So that's loads of time for somebody who's been in the role as long as he has.

And it kind of sounds now like he might be given the grace to jump before he's actually pushed.

So sometimes these heaves can really fortify.

Yes, I mean, I don't know how much the public actually care about the EU presidency, to be honest.