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2. Truck protest in Dublin: Routes around East Link Bridge and Dublin Port are blocked
   Council says trucks blocking roundabouts on East Wall Road and the Tom Clarke Bridge
   Updated: 27 minutes ago
   A convoy of trucks arriving at the junction of the N7 and the M50 as they head to Dublin Port as part of a protest over rising fuel prices. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
   A convoy of trucks arriving at the junction of the N7 and the M50 as they head to Dublin Port as part of a protest over rising fuel prices. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

   Dublin City Council urged motorists to avoid the Dublin Port area on Monday morning as truckers and hauliers began a protest expected to bring the capital city to a “standstill”.

   Protesters against rising fuel costs started to gather at locations on the M1, M4, M7 and close to the M11/M50 junction at 3am on Monday before moving towards Dublin.

   Main traffic updates
   East Link Toll Bridge blocked
   Dublin Tunnel, southbound, blocked
   East Wall Road roundabout blocked
   Sean Moore Road roundabout blocked
   The council’s traffic management centre said early on Monday trucks were blocking the roundabouts on East Wall Road and Sean Moore Rd at Dublin Port.

   Access to the Tom Clarke Bridge providing access to the East Link Bridge is also blocked by trucks in both directions.

   Dublin Tunnel, southbound, was also closed this morning due to traffic congestion.

   A pedestrian march, gathering at 9am at the GPO on O’Connell Street, is also expected to take place.

   Fuel price protest to bring Dublin to a ‘standstill’ on Monday, say organisers
   Truck protest will be another ‘hammerblow’ to city businesses
   Hauliers threaten to block motorways and ports in further protest
   The protester group, which named itself The People of Ireland Against Fuel Prices, has said it will not leave without a resolution on the issue, and called on participants to be prepared to protest “for at least one week, maybe even two”.

   The demonstrators were previously known as The Irish Trucker and Haulage Association against Fuel Prices.

   Before Christmas this group held two similar protests, the first of which had significant traffic repercussions, while the second was much smaller than anticipated.

   The People of Ireland Against Fuel Prices group is not affiliated with the official Irish Road Haulage Association.

   Demands
   In a post on Facebook, where they organise the protests, the new group said it will not be a one-day demonstration and will be a “long, drawn-out process until our demands our [sic] met”.

   “We are a group of truck companies struggling to stay afloat and have come together, along with farmers, bus companies, taxis and the general public to protest as the price of being in business and the cost of living is not affordable. We are all in crisis,” the post said.

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   The group condemned the Government’s plan to increase tax on fuel, referring to the carbon tax increase that is due to come into effect on May 1st.

   The group’s demands include price caps on petrol, diesel and home heating fuel, the scrapping of the carbon tax and the resignation of Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan.

   The price caps the group are seeking are €1.10 per litre for petrol, €1.20 per litre for diesel, 65c per litre for green diesel and 65c per litre for home heating oil.

   The most recent price survey from AA Ireland found the average price per litre of diesel was €1.90, while petrol was €1.82.

   A spokesman for the gardaí said: “An Garda Síochána will have an appropriate and proportionate plan in place to monitor the protest.”

3. I’m still in bed. WFH to the rescue

4. I don’t think it’s a big as they hoped. Certainly won’t be locking down the entire city.

5. Doesn’t seem like many showed up.