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There is growing alarm in the Government as nationwide fuel protests escalate, with the Taoiseach describing the blockade of a key refinery in Cork as “national sabotage”.


There is growing alarm in the Government as nationwide fuel protests escalate, with the Taoiseach describing the blockade of a key refinery in Cork as “national sabotage”.


The Justice Minister has advised fuel price protesters to move their vehicles, as the Defence Forces will be deployed to help gardaí manage the chaos today.


The Department of Justice said in a statement this morning that “the blocking of critical national infrastructure will not be permitted to continue”.


We were joined on The Agnenda this morning by Meath farmer Christopher Duffy, whoh was out protesting as we spoke.


We were also joined by Fine Gael TD for Louth, Paula Butterly, who says “protestors need to go home because they are doing more harm than good”.


We will also spoke to Stephen McMahon from The Irish Patients Association, who said that “patients must not be used as pawns by any party in the current transport protest”.



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