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Evening Standard
Politics
Cillian Sherlock

Irish Government announces 505m euro in fuel-cost measures after protests

The protests strangled fuel distribution across the country (Cillian Sherlock/PA) - (PA Wire)

Further reductions of duties on fuel and a delay in a carbon tax increase have been announced by Irish premier Micheal Martin after an emergency Cabinet meeting agreed on a response to the fuel crisis following major protests.

The size of the package announced on Sunday is around 505 million euro (£440 million), and comes on top of 250 million euro (£218 million) worth of measures announced almost three weeks ago.

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