Ellen Coyne

And when you're dealing with independents and individuals, that's a minority that can chip away.

That's happened in the past.

So I was surprised actually in a week where there was an attempted heave against Micheál Martin that that didn't become a bigger point of criticism.

It seemed like Fianna Fáil was looking inward rather than outward a lot.

interest to your listeners is that there's already lobbying going on at an EU level from representative bodies for the airline industry that if, God forbid, it does come to that, that we start running out of jet fuel and more flights have to be cancelled, that airlines would not actually be required to offer compensation to people.

They're trying to get a dispensation to say that this would qualify as an extraordinary circumstance outside of their control.

And while I know that holidays are obviously a luxury in

If our groceries are set to increase, along with our energy prices and obviously oil, that would probably bite quite hard for ordinary people.

And it would help to contribute to, I suppose, the general discontent that people are feeling towards the government here as well.

Now according to John Mooney in the Sunday Times that was kind of his downfall and there was some reporting to suggest that he had kind of been trying to court the powers that be in the Emirates that he had adopted wearing traditional garb that he had even spoken about wanting to convert to Islam and even though there's so much reporting in the tabloids and the broadsheets the one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that this did take him by surprise.

He's been living abroad for over a decade and he's been living a kind of ostentatious, audacious lifestyle.

The Sunday Times had some reporting last week

showing him kind of openly attending sports events.

We know that the Kinahans have used sports watching a lot throughout their empire over the last few years and decades.

But I think it is obviously massively significant for the Irish authorities here.

It's a massive boost of confidence because I think the public were starting to get a bit

inured to reports of how the net is closing.

I feel like that rhetoric has been out there for a very, very long time.

And I think people are starting to get the sense that maybe nothing, that this arrest would never happen, maybe.

So I think it's quite important, even though this is an international arrest, but I think it's quite important for morale in the Irish authorities as well.