{"id":524969,"date":"2026-04-11T10:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524969\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:07:21","slug":"fuel-protests-hundreds-of-irish-forecourts-run-out-of-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524969\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel protests: Hundreds of Irish forecourts run out of fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meetings between Irish ministers and stakeholders are expected to continue over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Friday, T\u00e1naiste (Irish Deputy Prime Minister) and Finance Minister Simon Harris said that there would be a &#8220;substantial and significant&#8221; package of support for &#8220;key sectors of the economy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harris said the talks were &#8220;going well&#8221;, adding that further &#8220;intensive engagement&#8221; into the weekend was likely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he added: &#8220;The blockade has to end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Miche\u00e1l Martin said the blockades meant the country was &#8220;on the precipice of turning oil away from the country&#8221; during a global oil supply crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meetings between Irish ministers and stakeholders are expected to continue over the weekend. On Friday, T\u00e1naiste (Irish Deputy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-524969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}