Pat Kenny

No, but do you want a brand new leader of Fianna Fáil and therefore Taoiseach in doing a job that really requires, I presume, visible statesmanship?

Now, the general politics of the thing, that story the Mail on Sunday has about you either have both Healy Rays or you have none, seems to be the message that the gun was put to Michael Healy Rays' head.

And perhaps that might explain his very dramatic flourish when he announced he was stepping out.

We pointed out yesterday on the programme that Michael Healy-Ray and Danny, they run a machinery business.

They are contractors.

They need fuel.

They also sell fuel.

And they also have such majorities that they're shooing to get back.

One would presume unless this is dirty their bib in some way, but I don't think so.

I think they're playing to their own constituency audience.

So they had nothing to fear from the collapse of a government.

There's a story somewhere in one of the papers which I saw this morning suggesting that the Independent Ireland group are looking at disaffected Fine Gaelers and Fianna Fáilers who might join them.

One of my listeners, a waggish listener, is borrowing from the importance of being earnest and Oscar Wilde about the Healy Rays.

To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune.

To lose both looks like carelessness.

Now, one of the stories that's unfolding and probably too fast for the papers to deal with is the whole thing of the Strait of Hormuz and Donald Trump deciding to maintain his blockade even after the Iranians stood down their blockade.

The speculation, of course, is that Trump knows exactly the effect of what he does and he's playing the oil markets or his pals are and making fortunes.

Because by saying that the, you know, the Iranians open it up, the price of oil drops.

Then Trump says, I'm keeping my blockade.

The price of oil goes up again.