Alan

The only thing is, when they're protesting, they haven't got the time or the energy to get out onto the streets and be disruptive.

So, absolutely, I resonate with the guys that were doing the blockade yesterday.

And it just made me sit up and think that we're all struggling.

I'm in the Midlands and I work, pay my PRSI, pay my taxes, try to be as good as I can.

And just the way things are going at the moment, it's just becoming more challenging to maintain

standard of living I'm certainly not making decisions whether it's eating or heating yet but it's just getting tighter and tighter and it doesn't seem to be getting any easier I've you know I'm fortunate enough I've got three healthy children I have a wife who works so hard works in the home and I'm fortunate enough that for the past three to four years one income

has been enough to keep us sustained.

Whereas I've went and I've got myself a second job just to try and keep the standard of living, just keep us moving forward.

I don't even think it's moving forward anymore.

It's trying to stay still without falling backwards.

I suppose the income isn't going as far as it used to, the net income coming in.

It's not that our standard of living has increased.

We haven't got an expensive lifestyle.

We haven't got new cars or anything like that.

It's just the daily cost of living, running a house, paying bills, buying groceries.

These are the things...

that everyone is suffering.

And I think the fuel, because it's happened so rapidly, the cost of the fuel going up, and yet people are pointing towards Iran and America, and, you know, that's absolutely terrible.

But this has been bubbling on for quite a long time.

And I would say even back before the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, it's just everything is ratcheting up.