{"id":393475,"date":"2026-04-11T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393475\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:05:07","slug":"donegal-service-stations-rapidly-running-out-of-petrol-and-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393475\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal service stations rapidly running out of petrol and diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Service stations across Donegal are rapidly running out of supplies of petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n<p>A number of garages have already put up signs saying they are out of supplies.<\/p>\n<p>A number of stations in Letterkenny, Donegal Town and Buncrana have run out of supplies.<\/p>\n<p>One Letterkenny garage spokesperson told Donegal Daily this afternoon &#8220;We have just run dry of petrol and we will probably be out of diesel by this evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a nightmare. We have had to put labels on pumps to let people know. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The worse thing is we don&#8217;t know when we are going to be able to restock the tanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Around 600 of the 1,500 filling stations around Ireland have run dry, according to an industry representative.<\/p>\n<p>Fuels for Ireland chief executive Kevin McPartlan said he expects the number \u201cwill grow quite dramatically\u201d if ongoing blockades of fuel depots remain in place.<\/p>\n<p>Asked on RT\u00c9 Radio One\u2019s The Business how that number may grow, he said: \u201cIf everything remains as it is, that is to say that the three facilities remain blockaded, then I don\u2019t think we could guarantee fuel at any forecourt by very early next week, Monday morning or Monday perhaps.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Service stations across Donegal are rapidly running out of supplies of petrol and diesel. A number of garages&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-393475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393475","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=393475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}