Dublin clears fuel-price blockade as six-day protests end
Dublin clears fuel-price blockade as six-day protests end
Police move to end central Dublin protests over fuel costs while the government weighs measures to curb prices amid wider Irish disruptions.
The blockade of central Dublin on O’Connell Street was cleared in a peaceful operation, signaling a possible end to six days of protests by farmers and hauliers over fuel costs. Mounted units and hundreds of officers helped restore access to the city’s main thoroughfare, removing trucks and tractors and allowing traffic to resume. In Galway, authorities sealed off a section of the city to end a blockade of a fuel depot, while similar actions were taken at a fuel terminal in Foynes, County Limerick, and at a refinery complex near Cork. Protesters elsewhere indicated they would lift blockades at specific times, illustrating a broad but decentralized movement with coordinated actions across multiple sites.
