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Swizz, I like that caption: we can apply ‘enormous’ to both the field and the error. Just imagine if the government pays out compensation and then in two or three years another geopolitical catastrophe means it was the wrong decision!!

Governments should not be gamblers with the wellbeing and security of its citizens. Varadkar said 4-5 years ago it did not make sense to import very expensive oil, possibly in an unguarded moment. I’m not sure if M. Martin was listening.

THE UK’s wind farm trade body has called on Ed Miliband to “take energy out of the culture wars” by increasing North Sea production.

Tara Singh, the chief executive of RenewableUK, said the crisis in the Middle East demonstrates how Britain remains vulnerable to events overseas and would be “stronger, safer and less exposed if it produces more home-grown energy of every kind”.

Writing for The Telegraph, she argued efforts should mainly focus on green energy but it was also “entirely sensible” to support home-grown oil and gas as well as nuclear power.

The intervention is embarrassing for Mr Miliband, the Energy Secretary, who is resisting pressure to expand North Sea drilling even as the Iran war restricts global oil and gas supplies.

Since coming to power, Labour has largely banned licences for new drilling and expanded a 78pc windfall tax on producers – changes that critics say are speeding up the sector’s decline.

Ms Singh, a former energy adviser to the Government and oil giant Shell, said the Iran crisis was “a reminder of how exposed Britain still is to shocks far beyond our shores, especially when it comes to energy”. She wrote: “I come to this debate with a simple view: Britain will be stronger, safer and less exposed if it produces more home-grown energy of every kind.” However, she also cautioned that the North Sea was an ageing basin, “not a limitless national asset”.

Her comments come after Greg Jackson, the boss of Octopus Energy, Britain’s biggest gas and electricity supplier, urged the Government to “use what’s available from the North Sea”.

( from DT today - where are the ‘entirely sensible’ leaders in Ireland?)

At Lahinch the sea shines like a jewel

With joy you are ready to shout

When the stoker cries out: There’s no fuel

And the fire’s tee-totally out

But hand up that bit of a log there

I’ll soon have ye out of the fix

There’s fine clamp of turf in the bog there

And the rest go a-gatherin’ sticks

(and to think Percy faced prosecution by the railway company for his lyrical endeavours!)

The greatest gift Norway possesses comes in the form of Eamon Ryan’s ghost in Ireland and Ed Milliband’s spirit in the UK.

As for the Negheads, be silent or be converted in the face of the incontrovertible.

PG is our inspired leader and Keith is his prophet. What more could you ask for?

Time to lay down more treasure on Earth at 3.2 and expect a glorious return!

Starmer was a traffic stopper in Cork, I hear. I wonder if he discussed Rosebank, Jackdaw and Barryroe with M. Martin. Most likely not, unfortunately.

Clearly the government doesn’t believe this - otherwise they would have done something about it in the last four or more years and certainly ever since those pipelines were blown up in the Baltic. Are you saying that they were asleep on the job - and are now reduced to just hoping for the best over the next four or more years? If so , you could be right.

The biblical Punt was somewhere in East Africa. Our punt could be worth a pound and its location is not in doubt. We will be charitable and not hum ‘Swing low, Sweet Chariot’ - it’s just we gonna swing a lot highuh. I like that old African- American spiritual dating back to the 1860’s.

So says Simon Harris if EU now buys Putin's oil. We all know Sweet Barryroe would be a less despicable alternative for Ireland, don't we? Maybe he just prefers Texas crude shipped across the Atlantic in various forms.

The Minister is waiting for all the hullabaloo in the Middle East to die down, so he can go back to sleep - that is, if he ever properly woke up.

PG must be very very pleased with all his decisions over the last year or two and rightly so. Carpe Diem must be the non-optional order of the day at below 3.5P. 23 jealous Jimmies will be forever seized with nothing but ‘if only’ regret.

Why are all those erstwhile outspoken Independent TDs not raising merry hell? Where have they all gone? Being paid to not rock the boot?

To think that Ryan once threatened to prosecute even private individuals who continue burning peat! Keep the home fires burning, I say. Lay it on! What a f———g crazy individual.

Well now, Donald, I believe I can help you with our experience and technology but we have a few little matters to attend to first - yes, indeed, I know how much good deals mean to you. We have always been grateful for your help in the past and will not be found wanting in these straitened times. Yes indeed, I was thinking about the Straits of Hormuz. You know how essential the Donbas is to us - I was thinking that a minor switch in policy in that area would work wonders —- thank you for your consideration - Yes indeed - send over Marco and my ministers will discuss the details with him. Not at all, glad to have been of assistance to you. I believe we can straiten things out together.

Another £210000 worth of CLNs since last August with no guarantee of RTO completion by end of April. Was targeted for end of October 2025.

No mention of Ireland once again. Deathly silence a good sign? That ostrich Ryan should have his head buried in oil-and gas-bearing sands after his remarks yesterday about energy price increases. You would think the loon is still in government to listen to him. Come to think of it, he might as well be.

This has been on the back-burner for too long. Over-pressured gas should put that right and the negheads out of business on this board. For those interested in neologisms it is believed that the term was first used on the EUA lse board about 4-5 years ago. Author unknown but surely a worthy candidate for inclusion in the O.E.D.in their annual updates at some stage. So very expressive without being downright insulting.

Not many chickens roosting in the noisy Straits of Hormuz this morning. The’ve all come home to roost in Ireland, I would say.

Putin’s putty is getting very soft. He can’t seal himself off from reality for much longer. As for Volodymyr, the little fellow is as game as they come. Slava Ukraini i Volodymyry!

Tincan on PRD thinks the Irish government will soon be thinking about gas supplies. They have been asleep for the last four or five years, so he must think they are now surfacing from their slumbers at last. It’s rather late in the day after all these years. I read recently that eight maritime patrol boats plus possibly one larger slightly more potent vessel are to be renamed the Irish Navy from next week.

Halt the talks and let Putin stew. Good thinking, Vlodymyr! Putin has overplayed his hand. Well done, Vladimir!