When one Cork petrol station dropped their prices for both diesel and petrol to €1.99 a litre, word got out quickly and queues started forming outside as hard-pressed motorists flocked to fill up.
The Swift 24/7 Station in Rathcormac has been pinpointed on social media as the cheapest petrol station in Cork.
Such is the bewildering speed of price changes, with stations across Ireland putting up prices, bringing them down and then hiking them up again, that local petrol price watch Facebook Groups like Petrol Prices Cork are being used to alert hard-pressed motorists to any stations offering a break.
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The East Cork Oil-owned station in Rathcormac was highlighted on social media on Sunday and again yesterday when prices for petrol and diesel dropped to €1.99 - with popular Leeside TikTokker @norriepitbull showing the queues with a video on her feed.
The station also got shout-outs on popular community Facebook pages like Glanmire Notice Board, with many motorists commenting on how the cheapest they could find petrol or diesel in Cork was around the €2.10 mark.
Queues were reported throughout the day at the station as motorists from as far away as the city made the 30-minute spin up to Rathcormac on the old Dublin road to fill up.
The cost of living crisis - and the soaring price of fuel - appears to have turned motorists and shoppers into determined bargain hunters and some businesses are seeing an opportunity to bring in more customers.
Irish consumers - already paying some of the highest prices in Europe for staples like food and fuel and services like broadband and phones - have been hit with severe increases across the board in recent months.
The latest inflation figures from the Central Statistics Office show that food inflation was 4.5pc in May alone. But family staples like milk (10pc more expensive in the past year), butter (up just over 11pc) and margarine (up 20pc in 12 months) have seen even bigger price hikes.
A survey carried out at the weekend by iReach research found that 60pc of Irish people are now worried that they will not be able to afford all of the groceries they need should prices continue to rise.
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