{"id":893836,"date":"2026-04-14T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/893836\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:00:17","slug":"northern-ireland-fuel-protests-live-as-tractors-swarm-belfast-were-being-extorted-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/893836\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland fuel protests LIVE as tractors swarm Belfast: &#8216;we\u2019re being extorted&#8217; | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Ireland\u2019s Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has warned that road disruption caused by fuel protests could threaten the lives of those requiring medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nesbitt said:\u201dI would be very concerned if roads were to be blocked, so my plea is do not do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust engage in legitimate legal protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, as is the case every day, there will be well over 100,000 engagements or interactions between the HSC and the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThousands and thousands of them depend on the workforce getting from A to B, or for patients or service users getting from B to A in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, the logic to that is disruption threatens life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy plea is let the health and social care system work as it is supposed to work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland\u2019s Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has warned that road disruption caused by fuel protests could threaten the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[238940,249686,774,23524,1144,39109,2579,252311,16,15],"class_list":["post-893836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-fuel-economy","tag-fuel-protests","tag-iran","tag-mike-nesbitt","tag-northern-ireland","tag-petrol-prices","tag-protests","tag-rising-fuel-prices","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116404134085625952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}