Fuel Protest (Read MOD NOTE on first post)

Basically they took on the taxpayer and took a hell of a beating.

That is completely incorrect . A very small number of farmers avail of the RSS .
Trying to say that farmers are in receipt of the same level of social support as the rest of society is simply BS
Thousands of social and affordable houses have been built annually by Governments since the Housing Act 1966- how many are occupied by farmers ?
Most farmers look after their own housing

Why are fuel protests loaded with people waving Irish flags??? Paddys Day was last month lads

In their minds they think they're being patriotic, probably couldn't sing one line of Amhrán na Bhfiann.

Well it looks like the Government have caved, it seems they finally understood the sentiment out there.

1. 10c cut in diesel and petrol

2. reduced excise duty from last month to stay until end of July

3. carbon tax deferred to October from May

4. reduction of in green diesel of 2.4 cent

these measures are on top of the deal the farmers and hauliers are getting.

that's a win for the ordinary people. Well done to the protestors!

Farmers ain't poor. Ever seen what farmland goes for? There's money in farming. Here's twelve acres for €185,000,twelve acres.

James Geoghegan back on the news....looks like he has at least sobered up before driving off home.…

Surely if price caps are the right response they'll be introduced in the North any day now....…

He’s more interesting when he is half cut.

Looks like you're the only person that doesn't understand the flag waving.

Interesting story.

I was having some dinner in the Mespil hotel last night after the rugby with three friends.

Around 10pm a man walked into the dining area with his three sons. He was about 45, the boys roughly 13, 9 and 6 or 7.

All were dressed the same, pale checked shirts, Barbour coats or body warmers, Levis skinny jeans and expensive looking chelsea style work boots. The youngest kid had a nylon tricolour around his neck.

The father had the vibe of ar5ehole off him from the off. His first words to the waiter who brought menus and asked for drink orders was "warm up the Pizza oven, boy"

So it was large pizzas, pints of Moretti and cokes all round for the next hour or more. The tricolour was used as a table cloth. The kids messed and made plenty of noise, the Dad was on his phone throughout, loudly, discussing the goings on at the O'Connell Street protest with others, and clearly they had been there.

He had two rooms booked at a cost of €550 and his dinner bill was €160.

My group and his ended up getting to leave at the same time, when I couldn't resist having a go at him for letting the lads dine on the tricolour and leave it crumpled up under the table, which it was by then. I asked him had he any true idea of what he was there to do today, beyond being on a day out and a jolly for the kids.

It seemed to me his greatest anger was embarrassment manifested at being called out for being a LARPer and a two faced moron.

Nothing escalated and we left the hotel.

But if that lad was typical of who was on O'Connell Street, they should all be mortified.