PROTESTS in Ireland calling for further government help to lower fuel costs continued to disrupt traffic on busy roads and motorways today, with parked lorries and tractors.Irish police said that O’Connell Street and O’Connell Bridge in Dublin were at a standstill.The protest began on Tuesday morning over the high fuel prices caused by the US-Israel war on Iran.Eamon Curley, a beef farmer and Beef Plan Movement chairman, warned that food prices will “jump up” if the government fails to act.“The farmers drive tractors, the builders drive diggers,” he said.

PROTESTS in Ireland calling for further government help to lower fuel costs continued to disrupt traffic on busy roads and motorways today, with parked lorries and tractors.

Irish police said that O’Connell Street and O’Connell Bridge in Dublin were at a standstill.

The protest began on Tuesday morning over the high fuel prices caused by the US-Israel war on Iran.

Eamon Curley, a beef farmer and Beef Plan Movement chairman, warned that food prices will “jump up” if the government fails to act.

“The farmers drive tractors, the builders drive diggers,” he said.

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