Rónán Collins

Yeah, I'm just going to pull out those election posters from the 1970s childhood that used to be in my house.

Vote 1, 2, Fine Gael and continue your preferences for the Labour Party and replace the Labour Party with the SOC Dems.

I think what Fine Gael are doing here, though, is that they're probably spotting that the SOC Dems are rising in popularity.

So they're seeking a stable coalition partner going forward.

It's not unusual.

Fine Gael have had longstanding relationships with the Labour Party.

But I think they've decided strategically that the SOC Dems is going to be the stronger arm of that two parties between Labour and SOC Dems.

And they're pitching towards them.

That's what I would view in it.

Just going back to Iran, I just wonder how real that tension between the White House administration and Netanyahu is.

I mean, publicly it's voiced as if there's tension, but I just wonder in reality how much it actually influences what Israel is doing.

I'm also very, I mean, I know there's a lot of fixation correctly, so because the US may have been involved in the death of 180 children in Iran, like, and a legitimate government.

But there's also the situation of a legitimate government that have killed somewhere between 15 and 20,000 children in Gaza.

Do you know what I mean?

These are supposed to be legitimate governments.

And, you know, the bloodshed needs to stop.

I'm also absolutely amazed that France has sat on the sidelines and not intervened when it's come to Lebanon and said to the Israelis, we want to assure the sovereignty of Lebanon's borders.

I mean, France has had a very long historical and important cultural and political influence.

Not always welcome, by the way, but a lot of the institutions that do exist in Lebanon have been inherited from the French system.

And I'm just amazed that the French have sat back and let Beirut be bombed indiscriminately without saying something.