Protest?

True, but you are taking 2019 as the base year. Covid expenditure from 2020 to 2022 ballooned spending, most of it probably justifiable. Then the Russian invasion and knock on supply chain costs hit the economy etc, then the record level of asylum seekers arriving on top of the 100,000 Ukrainian refugees we'd taken in.

The worry for me is the inability of the Government to roll back to prudential spending levels. Irish society now expects the government to cover everything that goes awry in the globe irregardless of causality.

Stopping the madness of buying up any housing via ngo's and bad value for money long term leases on whole developments by coco's would be a start...

Long time unregistered lurker, first time poster.

I'm sure they're shaking in their boots with the fear. Protests are apparently going on all afternoon so hopefully they are done before we get going from work

Some people were held up for hours near Limerick today, both lanes blocked in places. Hundreds of people have missed flights at Shannon airport.

last thing the organisers want is to lose public support.. a few lads took it upon themselves to block some roads completely even the hard shoulders .. what I have heard it wasn’t any of the haulers or farmers it was lads in small vans and cars who got ahead of some of the convoys .. one local county counsellor in kildare was trying to encourage people to park up completely on the roads instead of a slow rolling convoy.
Such a great turnout today in most locations it would be a shame to lose public support because of a few gobshites.

It was a car park on the road today near Limerick. NOBODY in the cars I was talking to, who had appointments to go to, flights to catch, funerals, interviews, old people to care for, work to get to etc had any sympathy for those blocking the roads. A lot less work done today in the country and extra fuel used by cars stuck in traffic, detours etc.

Just watched an interview with one of the organisers. He says they’re staying in Dublin until they get a meeting with a senior government official and real offers on the table.

The lads in the vans blocking roads looks coordinated. Wonder who they could be🤔

Imagine the hauliers and farmers, not the greens, causing you to miss your flight. It's a strange time to be alive for sure

Probably some kids heart surgeries cancelled in Crumlin as well so on balance there are bigger problems than a missed flight. I imagine plenty of ambulances were delayed in the chaos as well but let's focus on lowering the price of diesel

Say they do reduce taxes on dino juice. You happy to see an increase in VAT, URC or other taxes to make up for it?

Couldn't be further from the truth

Does anybody know what time it finishes at? I think that's what everybody wants to know