Israel-Palestine conflict is not the source of all troubles in Mideast

It should be a safe assumption that an ex-minister for foreign affairs would still be reasonably au fait with their former brief.

However, the performance of Dermot Ahern, on Claire Byrne Live on RTÉ on Monday night, suggests that this is not always the case.

During a discussion on the Paris attacks, he spoke of “the destabilising of the entire region, because of the Israeli-Palestinian issue, and that has been the source of all the problems in that part of the world”.