Ellen Coyne
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622 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Ellen Coyne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One person said to me that it would be the worst of all worlds if Michael Healy-Ray had to vote with the government and then resign anyway, like his political reputation would be in tatters.
So it reads as believable to me that it would be an unpalatable situation and how Healy-Ray would feel that really he had no choice but to resign.
No, but I suppose it wouldn't have escaped the notice of some of the government backbenchers that someone who gets triple a quota, like Michael Healy-Ray or double a quota, felt that there was too much public anger on this.
I think that for a lot of the rural government TDs, the fact that a Healy-Ray would resign over this is probably seen as a clarion call that there is a cohort of the public who may not necessarily have supported the tactics of the protesters, but they certainly supported the sentiment.
And that's not going to go away anytime soon.
Michael Collins, yes, is quoted in the Sunday Times that they're thinking, saying that he thinks that he has 10 Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael councillors.
Now, with those kind of stories, it's best to wait and kind of believe it when you see it.
We've had this from Reform UK as well, claiming that they're always on the precipice of another Labour defection.
But I think that there is a grain of truth there that...
Maybe they don't want to join independent Ireland, but I think there's a lot of anger in Fianna Fáil in particular that there's a constituency there that they would have seen as previously being theirs that is being, well, not eaten away, but nibbled at maybe by AIM2 and independent Ireland.
And that's a concern as well.
Exactly.
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.
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