Enda Brady

Starmer needed a quick win.

That's my reading of that.

He's not someone who moves quickly and yet they had the press release out by the time they'd secured the last barrel of oil.

No, I think people are behind Healy on this.

We're looking eastwards.

You're looking at Russia flexing its muscles and whatever is to come in the next decade, maybe in the next five years, if they go after a NATO nation.

I think the British military, a lot of people feel not just this government, but previous conservative governments haven't put enough cash in.

And I think people would support Healy.

Yes, he was a grandee of the Labour Party.

And for anyone who doesn't remember, I mean, he had a very distinctive speaking style, shall we say.

He occasionally had a little bit of spit coming out of his mouth.

And without being unkind about him, he achieved great things in politics and he was a good speaker.

I just remember as a kid growing up in Ireland, how I knew about Roy Hattersley was the spitting image puppet.

because every interview he did, he had a very distinctive spitting image puppet and he would cover the interviewer in a bit of spit, which was something he did and which they very fondly picked up on.

And you probably wouldn't get away with it nowadays, but spitting image in the 80s, anything went.

So there is trouble again.

In the past hour, police have used water cannon to try and disperse protesters.

What these protesters are trying to get at tonight is a hotel that is being used to house migrants and asylum seekers.

And police have very quickly ring fenced that and brought out the water cannon.

At one point I would make about Nigel Farage, no one in Ireland is interested in what that man has to say.