Fuel Protesters Add Oil Exploration and Dail Return to Demands

Blockades need to end, says minister as gardai arrive at Cork oil refinery

The escalation at Whitegate comes amid confusion over a Government meeting on Friday afternoon.

Fuel protesters add oil exploration and Dail return to demands

The protesters had also added to their list of demands: along with the removal of the carbon tax from green diesel and the price of fuel to be capped, they want oil exploration off the west coast of Ireland to begin and the Dail to be recalled on Friday

Whitegate blockade leader says protesters aren’t “acting the langer”

The Journal has spent the day with the protestors in Whitegate Refinery who are, for the most part, farming contractors and construction workers.

'We'll stay here as long as it takes': Fuel protestors at Cork oil refinery

Over 100 protestors - with no sign of leaving

Fuel protesters’ blockade of Ireland’s only oil refinery to stay ‘until diesel capped’

Irving Oil’s refinery at Whitegate in east Cork, supplies around 40 per cent of Ireland’s petroleum

John Downing: Is this Ireland’s ‘yellow vests’ moment, or can Coalition dig in against diesel demos?

Is the sudden emergence of this roadblocking “truck, tractor and coach alliance” set to become Ireland’s “yellow vest” moment?