Fuel protestors are causing road blocks and traffic disruption again today.

Tractors and lorries caused disruption across the country on Tuesday, as demonstrators highlighted their concerns over rising fuel costs.

Meanwhile, a third day of protests over fuel prices has been announced for Thursday.

The 'People of Ireland Against Fuel Prices Protest' group has said on its social media page that it has already notified Gardai of Thursday's nationwide action.

It's announced gathering points at various locations including Donegal, Athlone, Cork, Portlaoise, Sligo, Portumna, Dublin, Waterford and Wexford.

The group says its protest action will continue until the 'Government listens to the people of Ireland'.

On O'Connell Street in Dublin city centre, farmers woke up in their tractors on Tuesday morning to a view of angry commuters sat on the city's quays.

Access to O'Connell Bridge was completely blocked on Wednesday morning, and traffic came to a standstill around 6:30 am.

07/04/2026 Tractors and trucks during a blockade of O'Connell Street as part of a nationwide fuel protest involving slow-moving convoys causes disruption on major routes leading to Dublin. Photograph: Eamonn Farrell / © RollingNews.ie

However, despite a lack of solid sleep, the protestors have said they're not heading home any time soon.

John Dallon, a farmer and agri-contractor from Castledermot in Co Kildare, spent the Tuesday night on Dublin's O'Connell Street, and had this message for commuters facing disruption.

" The people will be annoyed, but my message to the people, the public is, please bear with us.

We are fighting for you as well. We are here fighting for the island of Ireland. This has never been done before.

We need a government to listen to us. Enough is enough.

"Everybody is feeling the hurt and the pinch in this".

The nationwide demonstration began early on Tuesday morning, with farmers, contractors, bus drivers, hauliers and motorists demanding a cut to the tax on diesel.

07/04/2026 Fuel protest on O'Connell St, Dublin. Picture by: Rolling News. 

Chair of the Beef Plan Movement, Eamon Corley, also spent Tuesday night on O'Connell Street.

"We've got support from nearly everyone that we've come across.

" I think they understand because this protest is as much for them as it is for us.

"We've seen the price of green diesel go up 70 cent a litre, fertilizer has gone up €200 a tonne.

"Plastic for our silage is going up 25%, and what that's going to mean is increase on the cost of food which is going to affect everybody".

Cork agricultural supplier Dave Mulchahy is warning that people will not be able to cope if fuel prices rise again.

"People are going to 'go broke' and people are going to go hungry in the next three to four weeks with fuel prices.

"Green diesel for the agricultural sector and the fishery sector has doubled in four weeks.

"White diesel is tomorrow night - we are to get an extraordinary increase in fuel prices".