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🚨Fuel protest convoys disrupt routes into Dublin, as anger over rising costs grows.
🚨Could rationing come next?
🚨Meanwhile, tensions rise ahead of a deadline set by Donald Trump over Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
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"The Government has saved the economy," says Fine Gael TD Barry Ward. #TonightVMTV @barrymward.bsky.social
Ciara O'Loughlin, Political Correspondent, The Irish Mirror, doesn't believe new measures will be introduced following today's protests. #TonightVMTV
Shane Coleman indulging in some pearl clutching here. *Everything* will go up unless something is done to address the rocketing price of fuel. Fair dues to the protesters. #TonightVMTV
"There are definite concerns among the business community about how long this will last", says Dublin Town CEO, Richard Guiney. #TonightVMTV
"The farmers of Ireland are the people that put the food on the table" and it is going to get more expensive, says John Dallon, a farmer and agriculture contractor. #TonightVMTV
"If you look at what the government has done...relative to other European countries, it is as good if not better,"
says Fine Gael TD Barry Ward.
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On #TonightVMTV at 10.20pm with Shane Coleman:
🚨Fuel protest convoys disrupt routes into Dublin, as anger over rising costs grows.
🚨Could rationing come next?
🚨Meanwhile, tensions rise ahead of a deadline set by Donald Trump over Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
🗣️ “There is Irish fingerprints all over this moon rocket,” says @ollopa11.bsky.social
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🗣️ “It really is all about politics,”
🗣️ “There is real potential from the moon, and that's what they're looking at, the commercial option,” says @ollopa11.bsky.social.
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🗣️ “Where our weight is and where I voice is strong is in our neutrality,” says Jennifer Whitmore TD, Social Democrats
🗣️ “We are a laggard when it comes to defence spending… they look at us with a degree of embarrassment,” says @mcconnelldaniel.bsky.social
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🗣️ “The falling apart of NATO raises profound questions,” says @mcconnelldaniel.bsky.social
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🗣️ “I think the president is feeling immense pressure at this point because the mixed messaging has just been terrible,” says @Amy Tarkanian, Republican Strategist.
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🗣️ “You just threw money at it,”
🗣️ “You gave 100 million euro to the electricity meters of holiday homes – it was a complete waste of money,” says Jennifer Whitmore TD, Social Democrats.
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🗣️ “I have very little confidence that this Government has the balls, quite frankly, to face down the populist calls we get and listen to what businesses need,” says @mcconnelldaniel.bsky.social
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🗣️ “If you have a supply crisis, the way to match that is to reduce your demand for it,” says Prof Lisa Ryan, UCD.
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🗣️ “We tend to lurch, in this country, from crisis to crisis… but what we don't actually do is put in sustainable measures,” says Jennifer Whitmore TD, Social Democrats.
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🗣️ “The government should do what it can do – but we may not be able to shield everybody from the effects of the medium-term crisis,” says Shane Moynihan TD., Fianna Fáil.
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🗣️ “This has the potential to be worse than the fuel crisis in '73, '76 and Ukraine in '22 combined,” says @mcconnelldaniel.bsky.social
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On #TonightVMTV at 10pm with Shane Coleman:
🚨 Trump says US can leave Iran “pretty quickly” - but will he depart NATO too?
🚨 Aviation fuel disruption expected from May, with fares to rise & possible advice to cut travel
🚨 The first crewed mission to the Moon since 1972
🗣️ “50% of electricity demand in Dublin is data centres,"
Energy use by data centres is under scrutiny as rising costs and warnings of prolonged disruption hit Irish households.
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🚨 EU warns of prolonged energy disruption - could rationing follow?
🚨 Trump tells allies to “get your own oil”, with mixed signals on Iran war progress
🚨 Israel plans to destroy homes near Lebanon border, displacing thousands.
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🗣️ “It is an apartheid law - it just further confirms that Israel is an apartheid state,”
🗣️ “It is despicable, it's terrible that it is the situation that exists in Israel today,”
🗣️ “When it was passed last night, there were champagne celebrations,”
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🗣️ “Who talked about tariffs first? It was Donald Trump. Now that's something that could be flipped back on him by the Iranians,”
🗣️ “One thing's for certain, the people that come out the best in this is the Iranian regime – should they survive,”
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🗣️ “At what point will Israel be held to account by the international community?”
🗣️ “They are not just killing millions of people in the region, but also causing pain and hardship for the entire world through an economic crisis,”
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🗣️ “That leaves the whole region questioning the strength of conventional US military power,” says Patrick Bury, former British Army Captain and NATO analyst.
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🗣️ “It's essentially someone showing the pressure's getting to them – they're running out of good options,” says Patrick Bury, former British Army Captain and NATO analyst.
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🗣️ “If people can work from home, they can make their own arrangements, fine,” says Joe Neville TD, Fine Gael
🗣️ “That's great for anyone that can work from home, but they still have to pay their electricity bill, they still have to heat their home,” says @lnbdublin.bsky.social
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