Pat's Sunday Paper Review April 19th
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What are the main stories covered in the Sunday papers?
The Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk. Well, we start the program as usual on a Sunday morning with a review of the Sunday papers. I'm joined in studio to help me through that process by Ellen Coyne, who is the author of a book we'll be talking about with Ellen later on in the program called Dirty Dancing. Ellen, good morning and welcome.
Good morning, Pat.
Now, you've been going through the papers. First of all, I'll do the red tops because they are always quite creative. The Irish Mirror, Dubai Jeopardy. This is all about Daniel Kinahan. The Sun on Sunday, Daniel's Dubai Hellhole. They're kind of gleeful about the fate of Daniel Kinahan. The Sunday World, US cops help nail Kinahan. The other red top, the Sunday People, differs. They talk about the Strait of Hormuz, time for straight talking. On the broadsheets, the Business Post derisory, PTSB shareholders advised to reject the Bulwag deal. I don't know if that's how they pronounce themselves. At the Sunday Times, Kinahan lost UAE protection over the link to Iran. And there's a generous package been announced to encourage Ukrainians to go home.
Healy ray given ultimatum by the Taoiseach's aide. And this was the story that if you got one healy ray, you had to get both.
What insights does Ellen Coyne share about Daniel Kinahan's situation?
Either in, both, or both out. And the Sun Independent, a bit worrying for people planning on a summer holiday. Erling is cutting 500 flights amid fears of fuel shortages. So, Ellen, you've been going through. What do you make of the stories today? It's a quiet enough weekend, even though the world's in turmoil.
It is, but I suppose there's kind of a link with a lot of the stories that you mentioned there, maybe except for Daniel Kinnan. Like if you were to take the Sindo splash, which, as you mentioned, is talking about how up to 500 Aer Lingus flights could be cut from its routes over the next few weeks, combined with some reporting in the Business Post about how there's some estimations that Europe might only have six weeks left. of jet fuel left. Now, obviously, apparently we have a reserve of 70 days worth of jet fuel in Ireland. But all of that is actually connected to the politics stories that are in the paper today, the fallout from, I don't know, could you call it a heave, a mini heave, or maybe like a kittenish push from some of the Fianna Fáil backbenchers towards their leaders.
Like all of that fallout is basically connected to one political decision that was taken in Washington a number of weeks or months ago. And it will be the ordinary people that deal with the fallout, whether it's rising cost of living or whether it's their summer holidays.
I saw Shane Ross believing that, for example, Micheál Martin might be gone if it hadn't been for Jim O'Callaghan calling in the army.
Yeah.
And there's actually a theory pressure off because if Callan is the heir apparent, Jack Chambers being deemed too young and also having made his own little gaffe with the presidential election campaign and so on and so forth. Jim Callan heir apparent. But then he made some mistake, which leaves the king more or less intact.
And I did see a theory that was reported in the Sunday Times as well that had it not been for the three young Turks who came out with that letter this week, Derek Leary, who maybe has been a little bit overlooked, might have been able to swell enough momentum himself to...
Stood down immediately almost.
He came out of that really well. And I mean, it was nearly like when people were talking about Derek Leary's role in that, everyone was prefacing it with how well got he is, how popular he is among the party. But I think if you're somebody that doesn't want Micheál Martin to be the leader, if the Taoiseach is reading the papers this morning, the only thing that's obvious to him is that no challenger is ready to take him on for the moment. The Sindo is talking about how... And his critics are saying, oh, he'll be given until 2027. So that's loads of time for somebody who's been in the role as long as he has. And it kind of sounds now like he might be given the grace to jump before he's actually pushed.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the main stories covered in the Sunday papers?
0:00–1:17
2
What insights does Ellen Coyne share about Daniel Kinahan's situation?
1:17–4:01
3
How is the airline industry affected by fuel shortages?
4:01–9:07
4
What political implications arise from the Healy Ray ultimatum?
9:07–14:30
5
How does the current political climate impact the cost of living?
14:30–16:55