Micheál Martin and Simon Harris could learn a thing or two from the 2018-2020 protests in France that left Emmanuel Macron’s domestic power weakened from the get-go
‘It’s unacceptable’: Micheál Martin condemns protesters who blocked roads and motorways
Is the sudden emergence of this roadblocking “truck, tractor and coach alliance” set to become Ireland’s “yellow vest” moment?
In France over the three years from 2018 to 2020, the so-called “gilets jaunes”, or yellow vest movement, mobilised up to three million people to successfully extract fuel price reductions and other cost-of-living supports from a government which originally had vastly different plans.