Fuel protest about prices

Ah yeah it's shocking how many people don't know 2+2 = 1,783.

It'd be a right hoot if some of these far right demonstrators did the numbers game on Countdown.

mehole flailing on radio one just now.he’s suddenly concerned doesn’t give a dam

They are when it comes to fuel dependency. To an IT worker in a Dublin apartment leading the salary scale, fuel pump cost is an afterthought.

I'm talking very simple mathematics and false equivalancies. Ireland is high in terms of skew compared to most European countries, to the point where plotting average (which itself is not preferred by statisticians) salary to fuel prices is completely insincere.

The guards are going in now to open up the supply of fuel. Whitegate first and it sounds like Galway and Foynes will also be forceably opened up this afternoon.

Who stated this, link?

Am not a farmer, but do live in rural Ireland and the groups in the protests are the lifeblood of every rural parish. The money they generate and circulate keeps rural Ireland alive. Large, urban centres by-and-large are insulated from the massive fuel increases that contractors and hauliers have had to endure. There are no Luas, Train, Bus, dart price increases. If Dublin is unaffected by an issue, it tends to be ignored. We all know of the massive flooding, power outrages and other instances that occur outside Dublin but dont get the headlines, yet when something happens in Dublin, it' makes media headlines for a week. I hope the protestors stick to their guns and make the Government realise there is life outside the Pale.

They aren't doing anything.

The protesters are moving and letting fuel out for emergency services. They are letting chemicals for water leave and any other critical goods. Then pulling back in.

The are letting emergency vehicles through on roads and have been confirmed by the emergency services themselves.

The government have the media spinning their shite over and over when there's clear video evidence showing they are doing this. The usual bullshit trying to turn the public against them.

Hypocrisy. And also childish and unfounded gibberish.
Just thank them and move on.

Huge support for it among the simpleton c*nt community alright.

More money is spent on people in rural Ireland than people in Dublin cork and limerick. Our property taxes prop up county councils in other counties. Also farmers get loads of grants and subsidies. Try living in Dublin nowadays with the crazy rent and prices for everything.

Am i reading it right, ireland are stopping oil coming into the country blocking ports of entry is that not shooting urself in the foot

yes there be reduced duty but a protest needs another approach i go back there next i have seen another continent really badly effected but the people say we just want whatever the price

My personal opinion I support the core of the protest but its gone on long enough and now you have the far right grifters latching onto to push their own agendas as they always do.

The major problem I have is enough wasn't done weeks ago, the Dail was in recess and they just threw out a piecemeal package and said we'll come back to it in a couple of weeks. You can not expect critical parts of the economy to shoulder fuel going up so much overnight, farmers and hauliers are working on razor thin margins and majority are locked into fixed contracts.

"He added that "someone else" could buy the tanker off the coast of Galway Port if it does not land"(from RTE)

Is that likely?Would that affect further deliveries from ships down the road in the middle of this Iran war/blockage?

Seems like it could be very ,very high stakes if those fuel ships gave Ireland a wide berth.