{"id":389291,"date":"2026-04-09T05:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389291\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:36:08","slug":"john-downing-is-this-irelands-yellow-vests-moment-or-can-coalition-dig-in-against-diesel-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389291\/","title":{"rendered":"John Downing: Is this Ireland\u2019s \u2018yellow vests\u2019 moment, or can Coalition dig in against diesel demos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Miche\u00e1l Martin and Simon Harris could learn a thing or two from the 2018-2020 protests in France that left Emmanuel Macron\u2019s domestic power weakened from the get-go\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775712968_713_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">\u2018It\u2019s unacceptable\u2019: Miche\u00e1l Martin condemns protesters who blocked roads and motorways <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Is the sudden emergence of this roadblocking \u201ctruck, tractor and coach alliance\u201d set to become Ireland\u2019s \u201cyellow vest\u201d moment?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In France over the three years from 2018 to 2020, the so-called \u201cgilets jaunes\u201d, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miche\u00e1l Martin and Simon Harris could learn a thing or two from the 2018-2020 protests in France that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9146,1814,61,60,44068,1843,43,48241,70,3415],"class_list":["post-389291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-downing","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-people-before-profit","tag-simon-harris","tag-sinn-fein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}