{"id":391604,"date":"2026-04-10T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:55:10","slug":"dpd-announces-suspension-of-services-in-ireland-over-fuel-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391604\/","title":{"rendered":"DPD announces suspension of services in Ireland over fuel protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPD has announced that they will be \u2018temporarily suspending\u2019 their services in Ireland over the ongoing fuel protests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/tag\/fuel-protests\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The protest<\/a> has entered its fourth day since beginning on Tuesday, with blockades remaining in place on various roads in and out of Dublin, motorways nationwide, and at refinery plants and fuel depots which are preventing fuel trucks from entering and leaving.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the protests, panic buying has continued and has left hundreds of forecourts without fuel, with deliveries not being made as a result of the blockades.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1230169663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-831471\"  \/>DPD has announced that they will be \u2018temporarily suspending\u2019 their services in Ireland over the ongoing fuel protests. Pic: Dinendra Haria\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Delivery service DPD Ireland has since announced that, due to the protests, they have no choice but to suspend deliveries in Ireland on Saturday (April 11).<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Due to ongoing fuel protests, we have made the difficult decision to temporarily suspend our services in the Republic of Ireland on Saturday, 11th April,\u2019 the company wrote in a statement on Twitter (X).<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding during this time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fuel-protest-7.jpg\" alt=\"Heavy traffic on Dublin's M50 Northbound, due to vehicles taking part on the third day of a National Fuel Protest against rising fuel prices. Hauliers and agricultural contractors staged a series of slow-moving convoys on motorways as well as blockades of fuel depots and major routes across the country on Tuesday and Wednesday. Picture date: Thursday April 9, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-1762436\"  \/>The fuel protests are continuing. Pic: Brian Lawless\/PA Wire<\/p>\n<p>Activists who are currently blockading the only oil refinery in the country have claimed that they are \u2018allowing more deliveries\u2019 to be let out of the plants \u2014 but Minister for Transport Darragh O\u2019Brien has called on the blockades to end.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O\u2019Brien said that he was \u2018extremely concerned\u2019 about fuel supplies not being dispersed across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m even more concerned when I get a message this morning from my colleague, Minister James Brown, about curtailment of fire and emergency services,\u2019 Mr O\u2019Brien told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstalk.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newstalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Service Update<br \/>Due to ongoing fuel protests, we have made the difficult decision to temporarily suspend our services in the Republic of Ireland on Saturday, 11th April. We sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding during this time. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YourDeliveryExperts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#YourDeliveryExperts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OKmWY9J6pV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OKmWY9J6pV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DPD Ireland (@dpdireland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dpdireland\/status\/2042533865818837367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 10, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u2018No one can stand over that. We do not want to have to deal with this situation in a heavy-handed way and I don\u2019t think that will happen. What we need to do is to de-escalate this now, today.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Government has said it cannot engage with disparate groups carrying out protests, and encouraged them to engage with existing representative groups.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting between Mr O\u2019Brien, Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon and 10 farming, haulage and business groups is due to take place on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood there are no fuel protesters on the list of attendees, but protesters have suggested they were invited to the \u2018breakthrough\u2019 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel protest spokesman James Geoghegan said the Fianna Fail TD for Galway West, John Connelly, invited them to attend on Friday, and that he, another fuel protest spokesman John Dallon, and a group of protesters from Galway would attend.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Connelly rang Newstalk radio to say he had not invited Mr Geoghegan to the meeting, and that he had advised the protesters to talk to the Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA), which is among the groups meeting the Government on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Geoghegan said that even if a meeting is held, the protest will continue on Friday despite the pledge to call off demonstrations if the Government agreed to meet.<\/p>\n<p>Ger Hyland, president of the IRHA, has offered to act as an \u2018honest broker\u2019 between protesters and the Government.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had been in contact with the protesters \u2018through intermediaries,\u2019 and is available to meet some of them before the meeting and take their concerns to the Government.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DPD has announced that they will be \u2018temporarily suspending\u2019 their services in Ireland over the ongoing fuel protests.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-391604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391604","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=391604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}