{"id":392653,"date":"2026-04-11T03:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T03:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:23:17","slug":"keep-her-lit-words-of-encouragement-and-over-e100k-given-to-fuel-protestors-across-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392653\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Keep her lit&#8217;: Words of encouragement and over \u20ac100K given to fuel protestors across Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words of encouragement and over \u20ac100,000 have been given to those taking part in the fuel protests across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/tag\/Fuel-crisis\/27?sortElement=data_pubblicazione,true&amp;page=1&amp;sortDefault=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ireland.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Protestors have been on the street for four days now, causing significant traffic disruptions and blocking roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A fundraiser has been set up on GoFundMe, with the money raised going towards food and drinks for those on the street protesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The target of \u20ac3,000 has been well and truly passed, with\u00a0\u20ac101,186 raised at the time of writing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This fund will go directly towards sending food and hot drinks to protesters across Dublin, Cork, Galway and beyond \u2014 a simple way to show them the country has their back. Every cent goes to local caf\u00e9s and bakeries delivering to protesters,&#8221; Michael McCarthy, the organiser of the fundraiser, said.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/news\/national-news\/2058911\/no-delivery-no-beer-pub-owners-fear-running-out-of-alcohol-due-to-fuel-protests-preventing-deliveries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">No delivery, no beer&#8217;: Pub owners fear running out of alcohol due to fuel protests preventing deliveries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added that orders will be made directly with local businesses and then delivered to the farmers, hauliers, and others taking part in the action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Receipts will be kept, and spending updates will be regularly posted, Michael promised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Payments will be made via bank transfer or card. All transactions will be documented and shared publicly for full transparency,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A number of people have added words of support to the fundraising page, with one person commenting, &#8220;Keep her lit. Absolute legends.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others have offered words of encouragement, telling protesters to &#8220;keep it up.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another says, &#8220;Keep it going lads we&#8217;re all behind you,&#8221; and one person commented, &#8220;Stay strong. God bless Ireland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To donate, click the link to the fundraiser page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-protests-money-for-food-and-drinks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Words of encouragement and over \u20ac100,000 have been given to those taking part in the fuel protests across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20670,34646,61,60,43,58],"class_list":["post-392653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fuel-crisis","tag-gofundme","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392653","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=392653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}