A blockade of Dublin’s main thoroughfare has been cleared in a late-night police operation, ahead of an emergency Cabinet meeting to sign off on measures the Irish Government hopes will bring all protests over fuel costs to an end.
The protests – which involved blockades of streets in the capital, Ireland’s only oil refinery, and key depots – strangled fuel distribution across the country and prompted an escalated policing response that resulted in several arrests and public order gardai deployed in Cork, Galway and Dublin.
