{"id":394788,"date":"2026-04-12T13:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394788\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:48:07","slug":"hundreds-gather-on-oconnell-street-for-ennis-fuel-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394788\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Gather On O&#8217;Connell Street For Ennis Fuel Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Ennis this morning as nationwide fuel protests continue into their sixth day.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators met at The Height on O\u2019Connell Street before making their way through the town holding flags and placards.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, traffic congestion and delays are still being felt across Clare with the\u00a0on-ramp and off-ramp remain blocked at J11 Dromoland on the M18, with diverted traffic moving slowly along the old Limerick road.<\/p>\n<p>Access to the Northbound lane of the M18 remains also blocked at J13 Tulla.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters reiterated their call for government support with rising fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>Listen here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Ennis this morning as nationwide fuel protests continue into their sixth day.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-394788","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\/394788","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=394788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}