In the face of economically crippling anti-fuel tax demonstrations across Ireland, the neo-liberal government in Dublin announced a last-minute emergency support package on Sunday evening in an apparent bid to pay off key sectors of the protest movement.

With Ireland’s fuel stations running out of petrol and diesel throughout the country as a result of farmer and trucker-led protests, which have blockaded the nation’s only refinery, and its depots over the past week, Prime Minister Micheál Martin announced on Sunday a €505 million ($590) emergency fund to mitigate against energy spikes amid the Iran conflict, the Irish Independent reported.

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