{"id":13303,"date":"2026-04-13T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/13303\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:02:17","slug":"map-shows-eight-northern-ireland-locations-where-fuel-price-protests-are-expected-to-take-place-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/13303\/","title":{"rendered":"Map shows eight Northern Ireland locations where fuel price protests are expected to take place \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fuel price protests<\/a> are expected to take place across Northern Ireland<\/a> on Tuesday, after similar protests took place in the Republic<\/a> last week. <\/p>\n

The map below shows the eight locations where the protests are set to happen.<\/p>\n

They include:<\/p>\n

How will the protests impact you?<\/p>\n

Lorry drivers and farmers have been encouraged to take part in the protests in each of the eight locations identified.<\/p>\n

\"When<\/a>\"Map<\/a><\/p>\n

The protests are expected to look like ones that took place in the Republic last week, which consisted mostly of lorries and tractors parked up on main thoroughfares or slow-moving convoys.<\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019re travelling on roads across the north in any of the proposed areas, there could be serious traffic disruption.<\/p>\n

A poster for the protests says that they intend to \u201cbring the country to a standstill\u201d at 2pm on April 14.<\/p>\n

The PSNI<\/a> said that it will be \u201cmonitoring the situation\u201d following the social media calls and noted that a policing response \u201chas been prepared\u201d to ensure public safety.<\/p>\n

Why are they taking place? <\/p>\n

There has been widespread anger due to the rising cost of fuel since the beginning of the US-Israeli war in Iran.<\/p>\n

The war in the Middle East has caused global oil prices to soar.<\/p>\n

This cost is being felt across the north, with a sharp increase in prices at petrol pumps and home heating oil bills. <\/p>\n

What has the government said? <\/p>\n

Following protests in the republic, Taoiseach Mich\u00e9al Martin said that a blockade of an oil refinery in Co Cork on Wednesday as part of the protests was \u201can act of national sabotage\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also described the blocking of traffic in Dublin city centre as \u201cwrong\u201d and said that those breaking the law would be penalised.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Mr Martin announced further reductions of duties. The size of the package is around \u00a3440 million.<\/p>\n

Fuel duties in Northern Ireland are reserved matters for the UK Government and are not controlled by the Executive.<\/p>\n

Last week, Stormont\u2019s economy minister Caoimhe Archibald<\/a> called on the UK government to reduce fuel duty \u201cas a matter of urgency\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fuel price protests are expected to take place across Northern Ireland on Tuesday, after similar protests took place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5484,6232,250,2993,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-13303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-fuel","9":"tag-northern-ireland-fuel-protests","10":"tag-protests","11":"tag-traffic","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116398479306105588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}