Ireland to deploy army to clear fuel protests

ER Editor: We had posted earlier this week on the road blockages in Ireland, protesting rising fuel costs, green taxation, &etc. This event seems to be the boiling point for a whole host of problems created by the globalists, not least of which is mass migration.

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Worth listening to (short)  —

The RT article below notes that the Irish government has ANNOUNCED it will deploy the military. It doesn’t appear that the military have been deployed yet, despite these suggestive images and speeches (here, here and here). However, this threat will surely whip things up. 

A meeting has been scheduled for this afternoon (April 10) —

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A tribute to the Irish from Mark Attwood, worth our time (2 and 1/2 minutes) —

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Ireland deploys army to clear fuel protests

Demonstrators say they’ll choke the Irish economy until the government slashes fuel

RT

The Irish government has announced that it will use the military to clear trucks and tractors blocking “critical infrastructure.” Protests launched over soaring fuel prices have brought Dublin to a standstill in recent days.

Heavy traffic on Dublin's M50 Northbound, due to vehicles taking part on the third day of a National Fuel Protest against rising fuel prices, April 9, 2026

In a statement on Thursday, Irish Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan said that “the blocking of critical national infrastructure will not be permitted to continue and the assistance of the Defense Forces has been requested.” Protesters who fail to disperse will have their vehicles moved by force, and “should not complain later about any damage caused to those vehicles,” O’Callaghan added.

Protesters in trucks, tractors, and other large vehicles have blockaded Dublin city center since Tuesday and formed slow-moving convoys on key motorways throughout the country. The demonstrators have also blocked ports in Galway and Limerick, and the country’s only refinery at Whitegate, near Cork, which processes imported oil to meet 40% of Ireland’s fuel demand.

The blockades have already triggered fuel shortages across Ireland, with 100 petrol stations predicted to run dry by Thursday night, an industry spokesperson told the Irish Independent.

Tractors block traffic as part of an ongoing fuel price protest in Dublin, Ireland, April 8, 2026

Fuel prices have spiked in Ireland as a result of the US-Israeli war on Iran, with petrol rising by 15% and diesel currently costing nearly 30% more than in mid-February. Home heating oil, meanwhile, has surged in price by almost 70%. Taxes make up almost 60% of fuel costs in Ireland, and the protesters argue that the government should slash these levies to ease pressure on farmers, haulers, and commuters.

A minor cut in fuel taxes last month – 15 cents per liter on gasoline and 20 cents on diesel – was criticized by Ireland’s opposition Sinn Fein party as “a pathetic token gesture that doesn’t even come close to what is needed.”

The Irish government has refused to negotiate with the protesters. “It is an act of national sabotage to blockade this refinery and it will directly impact the people of Ireland,” Prime Minister Micheal Martin said on Wednesday, referring to the Whitegate demonstration. “A gun can’t be put to the head of government.”

Martin was filmed on Thursday walking away from angry demonstrators in Cork, who accused him of “walking away from the Irish people.”

(ER: Other narratives coming into play) In keeping with EU policy, the government has also ruled out a return to Russian fuel imports. Despite a spiraling energy crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris said last month that “any move by the European Union to start buying Russian oil again… would be utterly despicable.”

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