LFE's other great fuel protests piece.

Follow-up to “The Blockade Is the Message” is up. 3 collapses in a weekend the blockade ended: 📌a gov’t that found €750m for a tractor but not €100m for disability 📌an opposition that filed the right motion on the wrong grounds 📌a tradition claimed by people it was built against 🔗 shorturl.at/j7lWA

There are only 44 female TD’s in the Dáil. Each female Minister who stood up to speak during the confidence motion was heckled and shouted over during their speaking time by Independent Ireland. It is not acceptable.

Another AI-generated claim about cafes and restaurants refusing to serve the Garda. This is a little harder to confirm. While the font on the sign suggests AI, that's not enough, so I searched for any coffee shop in Ireland called "The Daily Grind". There are two, and they are not this cafe.

That said. Yes. fuel poverty is a real thing for normal people. I know it because there is a reason my house is cold af. No, farmers in Ireland don't feed us. Farmers in Spain do.

⚠️M50 Southbound⚠️ There is a collision involving a large vehicle on the M50 Southbound at J9 Red Cow. Take care on approach as traffic changes lanes to get around it.

RIP Moya Brennan. Clannad never had a chart-topping single in Ireland, but her voice kicks off one of our most iconic number ones: irishnumberones.com/2022/04/27/r...

Drinking this right now.

They didn't even get a "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER"? He must be really pi$$ed off.

Just encountered one that looked "reasonable" at first glance, but deeper in the fine print it started attacking IPAS provision and support for Ukrainian refugees. Rapidly approaching 10k signatures

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

Please be conscious that there are petitions going around that may appear to be calling for something you want, but for very different reasons than yours. Read the small print!

After slashing everyone's Medicare, Donny had to do the decent thing and care for the sick himself.

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

This by @martinmeany.goosed.ie is very good: "Irish users have no meaningful way to understand why they are being shown certain political content, or who decided they should see it."

The thing that makes me angry about these protests is that for Repeal, we had to go out and knock on doors and be polite to people who thought we were the devil for months and these guys can just dump a tractor in the street and get what they want in five days.

And as someone who lives right by O'Connell St the racist and fascist element was front and centre from day one. And most of my neighbours are not "white Irish" and it was particularly awful for them from the very start.

4️⃣ 12- have attacked our Muslim Sisters on multiple occations because they dare feed poor Dubliners 13- caused the Dublin riots with all that brought with it etc etc I realise most people don't know the fash like we all do, and that's exactly what the fash are counting on.

Decided to do an extremely short catch up, of what the fash we saw over the weekend's been up to the last few years: 1️⃣ 1- sent death-threats to doctors and nurses during Covid 2- stood outside schools/vaccine centres threatening people going for the vaccine 3- harrased ordinary workers when asked

I’ve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share 💭✍🏼 #Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism 🔗 tinyurl.com/wak45j7d

✅ M50, N4, N81 all now fully open with no disruption 🚓 O'Connell Street Garda operation ongoing 🚛 Demonstration on N7 inbound after J8 (Johnstown)

I really do believe this is true. I'm sure that not everybody who turned up to protest has fascist leanings, but if you pulled your truck up next to one that said "Ireland for the Irish" and you don't leave, are you better than the owner of that truck?

A group of Muslim women who feed Dublin's homeless week in, week out, attacked by fuel protestors. I think we see who they are now.

Lying from the White House Podium is now a family tradition.

Because of concerns about the safety of using US Tech, France is getting rid of Windows from its Government computers. It's time, get all US Big Tech, Microsoft, Google, Palantir... out of Europe. It is a security threat.

What a well written article that details the far-right element of the fuel protests. Well worth a read. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-fuel...

A single donation or even a fiver a month. Please. These women are amazing.

Ireland's homegrown fascists unable to contain their excitement. #fuelprotests

I see there was a full on 'Ireland for the irish' parade going on in Dublin todya, being conflated with showing support for farmers and hauliers. Malachy Steenson and company at the helm.

Ireland's continuing lack of awareness of the presence of global far-right influence/activism in Ireland literally keeps me awake at night

With backdoor deals leaking now I hope rural folk who are getting nothing to help heat their homes or keep their cars running for example, realise this movement's leaders are a mainly bunch of mé féiners who care only for themselves. I also hope the left do much better for rural people going forward

Citizenship ceremony cancelled in Killarney Tuesday & Wednesday due to blockades. Approx 6000 visitor cancelled. €30,000 cost to local hotels. @radiokerry.bsky.social

So the fuel protesters are angry. Not half as angry as the parents of children trying to get to their chemotherapy sessions. As a nation, however, we are a curiously calm people...

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When protesters tried to block Dublin Port at a march for Gaza they were arrested like five seconds later.

I've started to gather some of the events I'm doing around publication here, with a few more tba: sallyhayden.net/2026/04/11/t...

Just passed a blockade on N7 West. Noticeable...non Irish registrations on the vehicles.🤔🤔🤔

So what exactly are the Guards going to do in response to this ‘exceptional event’? And when can we have our country back? So many aspects of this debacle are just wild. For example, many of the same lads who railed against Covid lockdowns are now locking down the country with unabashed glee.

Blockades remain as fuel protests across country enter fifth day No Livedrive today but updates on www.tiitraffic.ie (roads) www.luas.ie/travel-updat... (Luas) www.dublinbus.ie/news/central... (Dublin Bus) www.buseireann.ie/service-upda... (Bus Eireann) Good luck, #SpéirGorm

You really have to dig deep to find the info on tiitraffic.ie

It looks like TII Ireland only post on X? Is there nowhere else to get updates on road closures? They have no updates on their actual website. #SpeirGorm

Just worth saying, for absolutely legal clarity: the government does not have the legal prerogative to abolish carbon tax in its entirety. Carbon tax is a form of excise, and EU directives require excise on diesel to be a minimum of 33c per litre. (1/2)

Move your protest to Gov buildings, TD offices, political party offices, American and Israeli embassy and businesses - McDonalds, data centres, Google, Dublin south. There's a fascist element building & the 'Ireland is full' brigade taking over - the message is being lost. Waste of a good protest

Despite the difficulties Muslim Sisters of Éire managed to feed those who needed their help tonight. Only to be verbally abused by racist arseholes who are so stupid they can't conceive that Irish born and bred people can also be Muslim. #SpéirGhorm

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused. Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

Tomorrow morning we'll have a deep dive about how a militant group of outsiders managed to take control of a national movement and bring the country to a standstill. There's a lot of swearing in it.

Organisers of the protest Christopher Duffy: "Ireland is full", "these people are too different to us", "a lot of these migrants are attracted to 10 year olds" Sonny Boyd: pro MAGA rhetoric. James Conway convicted of causing €7,000 worth of damage to a house and over €14,000 damage to a car.

#fuelprotests . #spéirghorm EamonnVIDF @kenoflynnTD This guy led the Cork fuel protests. His name is Stephen Greany. He seems to hang round with a lot of actual Nazis including Ger Delaney, Justin Barrett and Anthony Casey.

🇵🇸 Events in solidarity with the Palestinian people around the country this weekend. All out for Palestine! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

I present Christopher Duffy