Eddie Hobbs
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Apr
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Well, what's happened is remarkable.
This is the site of the GPO there.
You have it on your tape.
That's the site of the 1916 rising.
And 110 years later, almost to the day, in a move that's completely caught the government by surprise, like a blind man, you know, going to the dial as we're all realizing there's a plunger in it.
have literally closed the country.
They've turned up farmers and hauliers and bus drivers in a convoy throughout the country blocking motorways and here they are in O'Connell Street in Dublin
Having conquered it, basically, it's amazing to see huge trucks outside of the GPO.
They have, however, committed, I think, a strategic error by blocking the main refinery.
And that could be an issue because as we speak, the Garda Public Order Unit, Steve, which are the heavies, have arrived down there.
The reaction of the government has been telling, and it really has shown Middle Ireland a massive gap between them and the state, because it's quite clear from the, you've often talked about the contents versus the state.
And the contents are alive with support for these farmers and truckers.
These are the backbone of Ireland.
They're ordinary farmers and lorry drivers that are saying, look, we can't take these rises, bearing in mind that 60% to 65% of the price of fuel in Ireland, petrol and diesel and so on, what you call gas over there, is actually government taxation.
And an awful lot of that is driven by our adherence
to zero carbon agenda, which, as you know, is all part of the strategic development goals that Ireland took on board.
We talked about that before, back in 2012, 13.
So this is a real moment where the actual legitimacy of the state itself is being tested by the people, not just by the farmers and the truckers.
And the reaction of the government, Steve, has been to threaten to bring out the army
onto the streets, which would have been quite extraordinary because it would be the first time that a standing army was actually brought out against the citizens of this state since imperial British rule.
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