{"id":406161,"date":"2026-04-19T05:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406161\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:04:34","slug":"peter-allen-what-frances-gilets-jaunes-movement-could-teach-irelands-fuel-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406161\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Allen: What France\u2019s Gilets Jaunes movement could teach Ireland\u2019s fuel protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe French group enjoyed some wins, but violence on the streets marred demonstrations\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Gilets Jaunes protest near the Arc of Triomphe in Paris on November 24, 2018. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c8619f30-bb6e-44e9-978c-657580065f14.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A Gilets Jaunes protest near the Arc of Triomphe in Paris on November 24, 2018. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When in 2018 the Gilets Jaunes \u2014 the Yellow Vests \u2014 first took to the streets of France to protest against rising fuel prices, it felt like a spectacular uprising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The activists, named after their trademark high-visibility motoring jackets, focused their main demonstrations on Paris, causing abject chaos that spread across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The French group enjoyed some wins, but violence on the streets marred demonstrations A Gilets Jaunes protest near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9146,1814,171749,61,11829,60,3410,43,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-406161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-fuel-protests","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406161","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=406161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}