{"id":390020,"date":"2026-04-09T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390020\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:12:09","slug":"gridlock-at-filling-stations-throughout-kerry-amid-fears-of-fuel-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390020\/","title":{"rendered":"Gridlock at filling stations throughout Kerry amid fears of fuel shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s gridlock around filling stations throughout Kerry as motorists top up their vehicles amid fears of fuel shortages.<\/p>\n<p>A number of stations around the county are now without fuel because deliveries have been postponed in recent days as nationwide protestors continue their action and are blocking critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Since early this morning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/951902834203084\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">long queues have been forming at filling stations<\/a> around the county as motorists filled up their cars.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Radio Kerry News, some people said they were worried about fuel shortages, while others said a sense of panic was setting in as they heard that some large filling stations around the county had\u00a0run out of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists stated their were concerned and needed to fill up their tanks ahead of hospital appointments or the commute to work.<\/p>\n<p>This woman travelled to Tralee from Cahersiveen for a medical appointment:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another man also came from Killarney to Tralee for an appointment at the hospital and he feels the Government should be doing more to help people with rising fuel prices:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others were concerned about being able to do the school run next week and felt more should be done to help people:<\/p>\n<p>Image of queues in Dingle:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-479108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dingle-gridlock.jpg\"   alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1474\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image of queues in Killarney:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-479109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Killarney-gridlock.jpg\"   alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"767\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s gridlock around filling stations throughout Kerry as motorists top up their vehicles amid fears of fuel shortages.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,9658,61,60],"class_list":["post-390020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-fuel","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390020","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=390020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}