Can someone explain how they hope to drive fuel prices down by creating fuel shortages? Are they trying to pressure the government to increase fuel subsidies?
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Muad-_-Dib3 days ago
+29
They want them to remove/cut the carbon tax that amounts to about 45% of the price under normal circumstances.
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Whooshless2 days ago
-18
Does setting hydrocarbons on fire pollute less when you pay more for them, or how does that make sense?
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Muad-_-Dib2 days ago
+20
You take the revenue generated from the carbon tax on fuel to fund renewable energy initiatives and speed up the transition away from fossil fuel. You also make fossil fuels less cost-efficient in the meantime and encourage more people to make the jump to electric vehicles quicker than they would have.
Burning the fuel is going to damage the environment one way or the other, but taxing it massively helps hasten the transition away from burning fuel.
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Holycity2 days ago
+2
It's not an environmental protest
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TimmyB523 days ago
+57
I don't understand why Irish people are blocking fuel bound for Ireland and creating a shortage?
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Thurak03 days ago
+86
> "We are now on the precipice of turning oil away from the country," he said, citing a tanker that was unable to unload at Galway Port and a halt in refining at the Whitegate oil refinery near Cork.
> "It is unconscionable, it is illogical, it is difficult to comprehend."
Who the f*** is organising these protests? Sounds like they don't have Ireland's best interest on their agenda.
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kitog3 days ago
+55
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0410/1567612-james-geoghegan/
This is the main leader
"Revenue has secured six judgments against Mr Geoghegan in the past six-and-a-half years, the most recent of which was secured just over two weeks ago. The judgments are for a total of €548,804.
context of the fuel protests.
Mr Geoghegan was also asked about his conviction on 13 charges relating to animal cruelty in 2006 after between 60 and 65 animals died on his farm in Cornaher, Tyrellspass, Co Westmeath during a 13-month period.
He was fined €6,250 in connection with a number of offences including leaving an animal with its head trapped, not providing water, not burying carcasses, and not feeding animals a wholesome diet.
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PoppedCork2 days ago
+14
Another was making sick jokes about r*** of Greta Thumburg
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SquarePhilosopher1082 days ago
-131
That's a real scumbag move, ignore the real issues and bring up historical offences by an individual, to justify this outrageous rip off by the state on everyone who wants to move or stay warm. The real criminals are pathetic ,euro obedient lapdogs who are on a crusade to destroy Ireland and its culture.
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M0T1V4T10N2 days ago
+30
Fuel tax is destroying Irish culture?
I mean your whole point is stupid. But that last sentence... *chefs kiss*
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Millennial_on_laptop2 days ago
+9
Organized by our old buddy Vladimir
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External-Praline-4512 days ago
+44
It's a minority and I suspect there's some foreign coaxing along via social media from the likes of Russia.
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Current-Function-7292 days ago
+26
I inevitably think nearly all these protests are encouraged and sometimes orchestrated by Russia.
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railwayed2 days ago
+9
The annoying thing is seeing all the people being hoodwinked by these scumbags because of the social media footprint. Even in my own WhatsApp groups I'm seeing educated people making pro comments about what they're doing. It's very disappointing
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Mammoth_Payment_61012 days ago
+3
Because they are angry and have enabled themselves to be manipulated by smarter people via social media.
Ireland loves a social media trend to the point of undermining itself.
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Loud_Tank_50742 days ago
+10
At this point, the protesters don't even know what they are protesting about as it's been hijacked by a collection of village idiots with different agendas.
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SquarePhilosopher1082 days ago
-16
Irish government is making diesel, petrol and kerosene heating oil unaffordable due to excise duty, value added tax and carbon taxes that amount to over 60% of prices on fuel. They intend to increase the carbon tax shortly. Anyone depending on fuel, such as transport companies, fishermen, farmers ,agricultural contractors cannot afford to work anymore and are protesting peacefully in moving convoys,and blocking the capital city to make their concerns hear by the current government who will not speak to them and continue to ignore their concerns. Kerosene has increased by 67% since the us/Israel war.
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DeltronZLB2 days ago
+34
Before the war, fuel taxes in Ireland were in line with the rest of Western Europe. Since the war started, the Irish Government has introduced more relief than almost anywhere else in the world.
The protests really just highlight how stupid the protesters are. Their blockade of Irish roads has caused significant chunks of the country to run out of fuel. A similar blockade in the Strait of Hormuz means much of Europe is going to end up in a similar place pretty soon. The Irish Government could eliminate fuel taxes and it won't make a blind bit of difference, in fact it will just cause us to run out of fuel sooner.
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deadflow3r3 days ago
+67
Any story like this should point that these protests in Ireland are being run by far right figures.
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tankeras3 days ago
-78
"far-right" has been overused by listnook/media to now include anyone who has the slightest reservations about mass immigration. Same with nazi etc.
So I'm afraid it doesn't hold any weight anymore
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I_like_biscuits3 days ago
+35
By that logic, we’d have to stop using the word 'emergency' just because some people use it for minor inconveniences..
The PM isn't throwing 'far-right' around as a buzzword.. they’re referring to specific organized groups with documented extremist ties who are leading these blockades.
Claiming the term is 'overused' doesn't magically make those groups or their tactics disappear—it’s just a way to deflect accountability for extremist leadership by hiding behind the concerns of 'average citizens'.
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artful_codger3 days ago
-44
Extremist ties lol. That's rich when the left wing opposition are literally former murdering terrorists. There are no right wing terrorists in Ireland. Never have been. Only left wing.
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I_like_biscuits3 days ago
+34
Claiming there has 'never' been right-wing terrorism in Ireland is a massive, historically illiterate insult to the thousands of people murdered by Loyalist paramilitaries like the UVF and UDA..
It takes a special kind of willful blindness to ignore that history—alongside the recent wave of far-right arson attacks and the Dublin riots—just to protect a narrative..
Trying to use 'but the IRA' as a shield for people currently sabotaging the country’s fuel supply is a pathetic deflection. If your only defense for these extremist blockades is 'the other side did bad things 30 years ago,' you’re essentially admitting the current far-right groups are indefensible and you’ve got nothing left but desperate whataboutism.
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artful_codger2 days ago
-38
This post, and the story it links to, is about the Republic of Ireland. Where the protests are. Where the shortages are. This has absolutely nothing to do with the other country called Northern Ireland, nor any other part of the UK. A pathetic attempt to deflect from the consistent pattern of left wing communist subversion that stained this country for 30 years, and murdered our Gardai and our soldiers.
There are no right wing terrorists in Ireland. Never have been. To smear farmers and hauliers as right wing extremists is laughable. Most of them know nothing of your pathetic culture wars.
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I_like_biscuits2 days ago
+25
Nice try hiding behind the border, but the Dublin-Monaghan bombings happened in the Republic, and the current wave of arson attacks and riots are happening in the Republic right now—carried out by the very 'right-wing' elements you’re pretending don't exist.
It’s a joke that you’re invoking the memory of murdered Gardaí to defend a group currently sabotaging the state and defying Garda orders.
Nobody is smearing every farmer; they are calling out the extremist agitators who are using legitimate trades as a front for their own radical agenda.
You can cry 'culture war' all you want, but your attempt to rewrite history and ignore the current Garda security assessments is the only thing here that’s truly laughable.
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artful_codger2 days ago
-30
The Dublin-Monaghan bombings lmao. Which Irish right-wing terrorists carried out that one? The ones with the British passports?
These protestors have the support of every farmer and haulier, and a large section of the squeezed middle too. FF/FG can afford to throw billions of euros every year on the IPAS scam, and the most expensive childrens hospital in the world. They can well afford to cut their tax take on fuel for a couple of months.
Cry more. This is grass roots people power in action. Viva la revolucion comrade :)
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craigdavid--2 days ago
+3
That's not true, they did in the first few days but that has definitely changed. People are missing important hospital appointments and ambulances and fire brigades are low on fuel. Soon it will effect food supplies and people's ability to get to work to do jobs that keep the country running. They have already put in subsidies, cutting tax further on fuel will cost billions in lost revenue this year.
But I'm sure when that happens you'll find a way to blame the IPAs, comrade.
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artful_codger2 days ago
+1
Not a peep out of your ilk, when the government were cancelling healthcare appointments and operations during their Covid lockdowns. The government set that precedent. And don't bother lecturing about ambulances getting through either. For years, the government has run down the ambulance service, to the point where it can take hours for an ambulance to arrive when someone is seriously ill. Gaslighting about ambulances and healthcare appointments won't guilt trip anyone, anymore. There's plenty of money to slash fuel tax. We're running a surplus of billions every year.
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craigdavid--2 days ago
+2
Have you seen what some of the leaders of this protest have posted online about think Greta thunberg should be raped or read the account of how the Muslim sisters soup kitchen were verbally abused by them when they got through the barricade to feed the homeless? Sounds right wing to me.
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Hawk-and-piper1 day ago
I bet you think the Nazis were leftists then m8.
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artful_codger1 day ago
Top gibberish. Ever heard of the IRA? Revolutionary marxists i.e. left wing terrorists.
Never been a single right wing terrorist group in Ireland.
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Hawk-and-piper1 day ago
Ye we're a thatcher fan weren't ye
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artful_codger1 day ago
You were a fan of blowing up children in Warrington, and strapping bombs to Patsy Gillespie, weren't ye.
See how much good will you've got from the Iranians after decades of arse kissing the Palestinians lol.
Sucker.
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The_Artist_Who_Mines2 days ago
+4
Things fascists like to say
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Hawk-and-piper1 day ago
Nah. These lot are far right. Most of the farmer types who throw a tantrum over every movement to environmental damage mediation are the rich gits who have three holiday homes around the country and love to support higher subsides that disproportionately benefit them. They've been throwing a long tizzy since cap and criss (programs that significantly reduce subsidies for the bigger farms and push more to keep land affordable for the smaller farmers)
So this is in with that same line. They've been spinning a narrative that government intervention is killing local farms. While realistically it's just making it harder for rich landowners to line their pockets.
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-17
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Blubbpaule2 days ago
+11
Comparing fuel prices to R*** and Murder is... something i'd only expect to hear from the far-right side.
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M0T1V4T10N2 days ago
He's also claimed that fuel tax is destroying Irish culture. So I wouldn't even bother with this clown lol
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JourneyThiefer3 days ago
+3
Apparently there’s plans for fuel protests and blockades up here for next week in Northern Ireland, dno what’ll actually come of it though
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hrehbfthbrweer2 days ago
+2
FYI some of the vehicles involved here have northern regs, so maybe it has no teeth and yous will be fine, but I could definitely see it travelling up there too.
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Kashawinshky3 days ago
-35
I'm already filled with anguish and shame as an American, so I'm always scanning for news that middle powers can come together to isolate the U.S. and let my country feel the full brunt of this insanity instead of foisting it on the rest of the world.
That said, can anyone ELI5 what is the goal here?
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DaveShadow3 days ago
+19
The big issue is this protest seems to have very little coordination in terms of end goals.
There’s an overall protest against the cost of fuel and how a lot of businesses are struggling as a result. But because the unions aren’t involved, there’s a lot of different voices demandin different things. Some want fuel excise and vats cut, some want prices capped, some want oil fields opened, and then the far right element want to get rid of immigrants and spend money on businesses instead.
It’s a mess, really, born from a massive cost of living crisis that has been massively ignored by the government for years.
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Kashawinshky3 days ago
Thank you.
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HybridizedPanda3 days ago
+9
The goal is to get the government to reduce the tax on fuel. Currently more than half of the cost of fuel is the tax. The current prices here are around 2.20€ per litre, or in USD it would be 12.20$ per gallon.
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Snoo-865132 days ago
+3
€9.75, US gallon is 3.785 litres.
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HybridizedPanda2 days ago
+1
My bad, didn't know there was two different gallons, although wtf
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giboauja3 days ago
+4
They have such a huge runway to alleviate economic pressure...
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Kashawinshky3 days ago
+1
Thank you.
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Several_Magician15413 days ago
+16
Look man I can understand you aren't a fan of what's going on here, but this self flagellation on the internet, constantly trying to show anonymous euros on Listnook that youre one of the good ones is pathetic. Please stop. Have some self respect. This reads like a f*****.
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fragbot23 days ago
+5
1000% this. The cringiest man on planet cringe.
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Kashawinshky3 days ago
-9
This is the first time I've said anything like that "on the internet."
Not "self flagellation" either--I just wanted to be clear that asking for the backstory wasn't snark; nobody asked for this, just acknowledging the origin.
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