Fuel protests blockade Ireland

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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For the past week Ireland has been blockaded by protests that have been described as among the largest seen since independence. It's one ripple effect from the US-Israeli attack on Iran, which sent the price of fuel used by farmers, truckers and fishermen soaring. In response protesters blocked motorways, ports, Ireland's only oil refinery, and much of the capital Dublin, demanding the government intervene to lower prices. In this episode, Naomi and Tim dig into the politics behind the protests and the international context. You can find some of previous reporting on the Healy Raes here https://soundcloud.com/theirishpassport/chaos-a-new-government-and-the

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Hello, listeners and welcome back to the Irish Passport Podcast.
0:34.6	Now, Naomi, the world is a turbulent place at the moment, to say the very
0:40.5	least. So you would be forgiven international listeners for missing something pretty major
0:46.2	that has just happened and is still in many ways happening in Ireland. And that is a nationwide
0:52.3	fuel protest. Some people are calling this the biggest protest
0:56.2	that the Irish state has seen since 100 years. This is absolutely massive, and just to give
1:03.0	you a visual of what has been happening in Ireland for the past week, more or less, is enormous
1:09.2	blockades of heavy machinery, heavy farm machinery, cutting off the central thoroughfares of the capital city, Dublin, blocking ports in places like Galway, cutting off motorways, blocking off towns and roads, and basically paralyzing the country. I can't really overstate the effect that this has had on people.
1:29.3	It's basically affected everyone.
1:31.5	It's not just people going to work.
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