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    „Verflucht und verflucht“: Die Hinterbänkler von Fianna Fáil sind wütend über den Umgang mit Treibstoffprotesten

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    2. Pab_Zz on

      The gardai need to put a stop to the blockade of the refinery in Cork. It won’t be pretty and the government are probably reluctant but they have to do it. Very little diesel anywhere near cork city. It’s too serious to do nothing.

    3. khamiltoe on

      [This is the second highest rated comment on this journal article](https://i.imgur.com/jdbdqkd.png)

      naw m8, there’s no far-right populist facebook element to the protest, they’re all reborn 1916 heroes* fighting the fight for the common man against the unelected elite. They care desperately for the plight of the working man, rather than looking for personalised subsidies to uniquely benefit them.

      *Seriously, multiple users on /r/Ireland have compared them to 1916 revolutionaries over the last few days

    4. Larrydog on

      Just watched the Simon Harris interview on RTE news.

      I think they could make a real balls of how they handle these protests, I got the odd feeling he’s hoping things get worse.

      Normally you’d expect duplicitous Fianna Fáil to be politically shrewder with an issue like this, but unfortunately they have Micheál Martin in charge.

    5. 922WhatDoIDo on

      The government really did completely fail to find the measure of this one though. Like protests of this nature are rarely 100% fueled (pardon the pun) by a single issue. 

      How nobody made the connection between fuel prices and general discontent over the cost of living is baffling.

    7. danius353 on

      > “The tail is wagging the dog at this stage,” they said

      It’s gone waay beyond that at this stage. This government has bent over backwards for farmers on payments, on the nitrates derogation etc and then farmers stormed the Border Bia office and now this.

    8. EmiliaPains- on

      Man I’d love a leadership election if O’Callaghan wasn’t such a right wing simp

    9. Rathbaner on

      The far right are controlling these protests. The govt needs to split them away and isolate them from the common or garden types pissed off with the cost of everything.

    10. barconr on

      This protest has come at the worst possible time for the government. The big fuel price spike is still to hit us and all the associated fallout from that will be something to behold.

      They made a mistake cutting excise so early. Now they have very little headroom to do anything else when we could be looking at a worst case of 3EUR a litre.

      The next month is going to be very rough.

    11. paddyotool_v3 on

      Micheál Martin seemed out of his depth in the interviews I heard him giving today. It’s like he genuinely doesn’t know what to do when confronted by an actual real problem.

    13. fgillen1 on

      If Google or Facebook were threatening to pull out of Ireland Harris and Martin wouldn’t be long making things happen. If they were good at their jobs they would have had the foresight to have plans in place. The straight of Hormuz has been closed for over a month now. Would love to know what the government have done in this time in terms of potential mitigation measures or plans. The shit has hit the fan and now they are scrambling… same story different use case!

    14. D12_Claire on

      The guards really fucked this one up, nearly helping the blockade and fuck the rest of us x

    16. DefinitionSoft4310 on

      Ara, we will still vote the same clowns in again at the next election!

      I wonder how many of the protestors voted for him!

    18. GDow1981 on

      How to day you are in Sinn Fein without saying your in Sinn Fein…
      Back benchers in FF angry? lol
      Loud minority

    19. SpookyOrgy on

      Thejournal.ie and not giving the identity of the quote is pathetic as a source

    20. Awkward_Purpose_9232 on

      How the fuck is this man still in power? It’s getting a bit old I’d say

    21. DGAF06 on

      They’ve been kicking the can down the road for years and now it’s landed on their front door. They haven’t a clue what they’re at.

    22. matrisfutuor on

      CPO 70% of farms with a nice big grant and then start re-wilding. Cut carbon emissions while also not making a huge difference to our food distribution which is majorly imported anyway. Farmers hold this country to random and export a huge chunk of the food they grow while also claiming massive EU grants. A whole sector held together with twine and red tape.

    23. FIGHTorRIDEANYMAN on

      Regardless if you’re for or against the protests I think we can all agree they made an absolute bollocks of this situation.

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