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We are here in Ireland and we spoke with the citizens to know their thought on what happened with those crazy crackdown and fuel protests and blockades.

You don't want to miss that. We're just going to gaslight this. No, we can't go back.

Any message for the other countries that are facing the same kind of issue than Ireland? Yeah, I would say keep fighting for it because if there's power in numbers and like, I think if everyone kind of pulls together, something has to change because it can't keep going the way it is.

Good for people to stand up for what they believe. Good for them. Good for us all. Good for us. Terrible.

Getting the army in, like the last time the army was deployed against our own people was during the civil war, do you know what I mean?

When we were fighting for our rights, for our country to be independent. And now look at it like they're deploying armed forces to go and stop some famers.

They're all cowards, all the politicians. They're only looking after themselves. That's the difference.

They don't care about the people.

Alex Alabois for Reborn News here at the Whitegate refinery in the south of Ireland, where just days ago this very spot became the center of major protests, blockades and heavy police crackdown.

No reason. Amid crushing fuel prices driven by carbon taxes and rising global oil costs linked to tensions in Iran, the impact of this has been felt here in Ireland just as it has in most other countries across the world.

The Irish people have had enough. Farmers, truckers and working people pushed back, sending a clear message to their listen to us.

Convoys rolled into Dublin's city center while highways and key roads across the country were blocked.

This refinery, one of the most critical fuel hubs in Ireland, supplying significant portions of the country, became a key target.

With fuel tankers prevented from entering and leaving.

There's a linking up,

not budging. There's 10 tankers coming down the road, getting a full yard escort. There's a tanker there waiting already.

The tankers are just around the bend. Over. Over the weekend, the situation escalated. Riot police alongside Irish military engineering unit equipped with tow trucks moved in to dismantle the blockades and clear protesters who were stopping fuelled deliveries.

The targeting of Whitegate in particular was very serious.

It was in imminent danger of seeing oil intended for Ireland being resold and redirected to other countries and of refining being paused at Whitegate, which would have been extremely serious in terms of continuity of supply of finished product to the country.

By Sunday, authorities had cleared protest Sites across the country. That same day, the government rushed out a so called package deal including temporary fuel tax relief, delayed carbon tax increases and roughly 100 million euro in subsidies for farmers, truckers and rural sectors.

Postponing the increase in carbon tax

from May until the budget in October. Enhancing the transport support schemes for all haulage operators

in the country for local Lincoln School transport providers and some commercial operators. But Prime Minister Michal Martin rejected calls to meet with protesters, claiming they do not represent any official industry body and accusing them of attempting to blackmail the government.

The protests at the moment are wrong and anybody who just simply parks a truck in the middle of nowhere, there should be penalties and there will be penalties in terms of any

violations of various laws that apply there. Meanwhile, parts of the media and political class have labeled this grassroots movement as far right.

I didn't attend any of those protests and the reason why I didn't it was overtook by the far right.

I'm terrified to be part of any protest where I see a tri flag, a claim many on the ground strongly reject.

Every time anybody opens them out of this country. If, if you're not with the narrative of the government, they call you far right.

That's what they label us, far right. We are not far right no matter what. We might be right, but we're not far right.

Irish people has immigrated to every corner of the earth. We have no problem with that. Any person wants to come over here legally and wants to work and live as monks os while Irish we share our hands and we would love them to join in in our protests as well.

We traveled here in Whitegate and to Cork to speak with the people on the ground, to know first of all if they support

the fuel protest and to hear their thought about first the government response and the police response.

We are from Canada and we travel the spot to talk with the people about the few protests that took place around here and we want to have the opinion of the people.

Do you have any thought about it? Yeah, it's obviously like really prevalent in Ireland at the moment and there's been a lot of ports and stuff blocked.

There was kind of a lot of, kind of manhandling of people and tractors and stuff during the weekend as well with pepper spray and stuff, which I'm not even sure if it's legal in Ireland, but it's definitely something that's needed.

It's definitely something that needs to be supported because diesel has gone up by I think around 45 cent alone.

And especially for tractor diesel, it's gone up something like 70 cent in the last couple of months. Fuel for houses like oil and stuff like that has gone up by about 400 per 500 liters.

It's crazy. It affects all of us. It affects me at the moment because I have to drive up and down to town.

But they have to stand their ground. We all have to stand our ground. You know, I mean, and I took my time coming up and I.

I was delayed, but I'll get over it and it'll be fine. And they're doing their. They're doing their best.

They're standing up for all of us. Do you think it was justified what they did, like blocking refineries?

100%. 100%. Me Hall Martin, or me Hall Martin, as we all like to call them down here, has been this country for years.

Absolutely. Ripping the Irish people, taking money out of their pockets. That doesn't need to be taken over 50%.

I think out of the 220 we pay for a liter of diesel, 120 of that goes to the government. So in my opinion, yeah, I think they're right to protest.

I was justified to protest. I think some of the tone of the process of the protesters went a little too far.

But yes, I agree with the protest. I think it's crazy what's going on. The government need to go. Same as Canada, same as Trudeau.

You know what I mean? What happened to chocolate over there? I need to froze the bank account over there.

It's a disgrace. Let us know your thought on the comment section. And please don't forget to subscribe and to share that video.

Well, I think it's a proper disgrace, you know, we have to go to do for our country, Love, you know, with the price of diesel and the price of gas and things like, it's very, very hard on Ireland to do.

So that's why we had to protest, you know what I mean? And it's not over at Love, do you know what I mean?

We will do to get our government out, as simple as that? Well, I can understand why they did it, but

I don't think it was right that they blocked the road the way they did. But I think the guards handled it well.

A lot of people have different opinions, you know, it's.

It's one of those things. Maybe they should, maybe they shouldn't. Do you agree with the blockade? Not blockade, no, but the protest.

Yes, yes, yes. 100% agreed with them. The price of the fuel here is very expensive. Our government have taken our notice of the local community or farmers or business in general that depend a lot on oil and home heating oil.

You know, it's been absolutely disgraceful by our government what they've done. You know, we saw how the police handled the protests.

We saw lots of arrests, paper spray. Do you think the police did handle correctly? No, they didn't handle it.

No, no, we have a right to protest. Everybody should have a right to process. This is a democracy. I mean America is a democracy, Canada is a democracy.

You have a right to get out the streets and tell them how upset we are. So no, the police were heavy handed and they shouldn't have done it.

I do think some of them are probably on a little bit of a power trip because nothing major seems to, you know, there's no major things happening.

Thanks for the God. But look, I suppose they're being told what to do as well. It's the same bringing in the army, like that's not their job.

That's not their job to do that, you know what I mean? So I, I don't like, you know, I don't think the army know that be brought into it.

They have no choice. They have no choice. They have to do what they're told. And I think what they all seem to forget is we're known as the Fighting Irish.

You know what I mean? We don't stand for this bull as we like to say. You know, we're gonna come in, we're gonna stand our ground, we're gonna take back for what needs to be taken back.

There's a housing crisis, there's a homeless crisis, there's the fuel crisis and it's all to do with Michal Martin's government Fianna Fall and Fina Gael in the book and independence.

Do you think your government is listening to, to his people? No. Police have a tough enough job. Yeah.

Because without paper spraying they're going to. Yes, they're going into volatile situations. They're ordinary working folks the same as we are.

It's the government is the issue, not the police or not the protesters. The police are only trying to do their jobs.

It's the government. You have to keep it down to the government. They all need to go. They're tyrants.

Famous Corbett, they did the same thing in covert. They lock people down for what was basically the flu with the longest lockdown in the world nearly.

They left construction workers at home. It's a disgrace. They need to go. Basically. That's what he said.

Well, they shouldn't be doing it to kids under 14. The pepper spray, the child of 14, which should not be done in our country.

Do you know what I mean? Poor young lad. They got pepper sprayed yesterday. Thank God he's around to tell the tale.

Are your eyes all right?

What's it? Sore

eyes. What else?

What about your nose?

I didn't hear anything about any protester being beaten up, but I did hear of some young boy that had.

That had been pepper sprayed, but I don't think that young boy should have been there in the first place.

And I would think that it was probably. I don't think he would have been pepper sprayed on purpose. And I've been straight on his personal about it.

We are treated like Dr. Nyland hair love with our government pests. Terrible. Freaking. Getting the army in life.

The last time the army was deployed against their own people was during the Civil War, do you know what I mean?

When we were fighting for our rights, for our country to be independent. And now look at it like they're deploying armed forces to go and stop some farmers.

The farmers are the ones who put all the food on all our tables. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's terrible.

It's just f. Cking terrible. Do you think the police overused their power a little bit? Yes. I'm very conscious of the fact that we have to ensure that we support people, protect key services and make critical investments.

The package we've agreed today is a significant response to real pressures being felt here and globally.

And what did you think about the package deal that the government laid out? Awful. Absolutely awful. I think an awful lot of more people needed to resign.

I think the fact that they didn't vote no confidence is kind of ridiculous. It'd be way better if we had Sinn Fein in power.

It's not great at the moment. It's very bad for the people of Ireland. A lot of people in Australia are saying that they're mad to move home.

A lot of my friends will have kids over there and stuff. They're trying to move back and they can't, like, but, like, they can't afford to come home.

There's no housing, there's no fuel, there's no way of getting cars. It's ridiculous. Like, it's very.

It's very hard to live here at the moment. Very poor for the farmers, for the simple fact there's only 3 cent a litre that they took off with them and they're still paying twice the amount of money for their oil that they were paying maybe just before they ran more, you know what I mean?

So, like they can't keep. They can't survive on that. Like, you know, the government

just trying to appease the demonstrators. But it's. No, that's, that's terrible. Not good. Do you think we will see more protests coming up?

I think so, yeah. Big time. Yeah. I think it's going to kick off and when it does, there's going to be a trouble, I think, to be honest.

It's like when we have to go to protest for our kids, for our family. Do you know what I mean? They are treating us like in Ireland, as I could say dirt.

We are not getting our rights in Ireland, Cloud. They're a bunch of bollocks, this is what it is. They all need to be f traded for treason, I reckon.

Get them out. Get them the f out. I mean, these were all working class people. They weren't troublemakers or anything like that.

They were all farmers and just wanted to go about their daily business. Because every country seems to be struggling a good bit at the moment.

Like there's been an awful lot of wars. There's been like every place is in turmoil at the moment. Like it's been very, very hard for a lot of countries.

And I think it's good that Irish people are usually kind of noted to be kind of just mad for the beer or mad to go wild or whatever.

But it's good to see that we're actually having a back and it's not enough for ourselves for once because I'd say we haven't in the last like 100 years.

It's really important, I suppose immigration is a huge problem here, you know, I mean, our culture is being, I suppose, destroyed in many respects because there's so many asylum seekers coming into the country and they're illegal immigrants.

They're not. I mean, they're not, they're not fleeing persecution. They're just here for economic reasons.

So I think that's a big reason. That's a big problem we have here. And sometimes we're too quiet. We are too quiet.

We're too quiet for it. We should say what we. Normally, I wouldn't say my own few words, but sometimes we are too quiet and we should.

And they were right. Good for people. Stand up what they believe. Good for them. Good for us all. Good for us.

They're taking a euro 20 per liter from the carbon tax and all their other taxes. What the is 10 cents going to do for the people?

Do you know what I mean? My truck takes over. It takes 100 liters. So $0.10 times 100. What do I say?

The tenor, like, come on. A protest doesn't make a revolution. What make a revolution? Well, tear up those bricks there on the ground there and start lobbing them through windows.

That's a revolution. If nothing change, what is the future of Ireland? Riots on the street, I'd say, to be honest with you, because if there's.

If there's a crash like what happened here in 2007, 2008, this place will erupt. It'll be. I think there will be riots, to be honest.

It's going to be dodgy. Our politicians need to be more answerable. They need to take more responsibility for their actions between bringing in.

We're such a small country, population of 4 and a half to 5 million, and with Ukraine more like over 130,000 plus, and we're still bringing in

migrants from other countries. Like, we can't sustain that. Like, we're too small. You know, I think our population that are working is 3.5 million, maybe probably less, like, you know, and the taxes cannot cover that, you know, so something has to change.

Basically, what the future looks like for Ireland, I think it'll be very bleak. There won't be an awful lot.

Like, we have a very declining population as it is. Even the Irish language has gone down. Not an awful lot of people speak it.

Whale talks are nearly gone out of place. It's very hard to keep a native kind of country like this going.

And like, there is a lovely saying in the Irish language that is tirgan changa tirgananum. So it's kind of like a country without a tongue is like a country without a name.

And I do think that the Irish culture and population is drying out because people have to go and immigrate to get anywhere in life.

So it is really sad. I don't think Ireland would be here in another couple of years. It'll just be. All the Irish will be spread out.

It won't be. It'll be a very different Ireland. Yeah, we need. We need a new government. We need new people with new ideas, you know, 100%.

They failed. Yeah, they failed the people, they failed the nation and they're still failing the nation.

Look at like, all the immigration we've had, people leaving the country, all the young trades. Even myself, I lived in Australia for 10 years because Ireland just wasn't viable.

You know what I mean? My younger sister and my mother are still out in Australia.

They can't come back. My younger sister can't come back and get a job over here. She can't afford a house over here.

Do you know what I mean? I'm lucky enough. I've got a decent trade. I'm a plumber. I make some decent money.

I can afford to live over here. But it's struggling. Everything is struggling. Could I speak like this?

I'm a grandmother myself and having all the grandchildren. Things with our food and the shop, love. We're afraid, like case, there'd be no food coming off for us, for our kids.

Do you know what I mean? Even to the fuel, like in things. How can people expect to get to work when they haven't got fuel in the cars?

They have it, but they want higher money. They want to loan the prices down to the Irish. Any message for the other countries that are facing the same kind of issue than Ireland?

Yeah, I would say keep fighting for it because there's power in numbers and I think if everyone kind of pulls together, something has to change because it can't keep going the way it is.

We traveled here in Ireland because it's important to give a voice to the protesters who are rising against the government and especially against the rising cost of fuel.

They cannot count on the mainstream media because they rely on government subsidy, as in Canada. If you think it was important to be here to give them a voice, please go over the truth about ireland.com chip in what you can to help us to offset our travel expenses.

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