Mary Regan
speaker
767 appearances
11 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Mary Regan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the truth is, if the carers decide to shut down the M50, will you support them?
Because that's what every group in the country should do now if it works.
Shut the place down.
I'm going to let you go.
Thank you very much.
And Michael McDool as well.
Mary Regan listening to all of that.
And it's just interesting to hear, particularly on the green diesel front, that we mightn't be there yet in terms of what people want and expect to use green diesel.
So farmers, agricultural contractors and so on.
Do you expect that that might be an issue for the government?
Mary Regan, thank you very much.
Mary Regan is political editor with the Irish Independent.
Weekday mornings at 9.
You have to think that the scale of the protest and also the level of anger and resentment and the sense of inequality that people are feeling, that's not going to go away with €500 million.
I think the outcome, generally speaking, is a bit of a lose-lose situation now for the government because they have delivered what is a massive financial package outside of a budget half a billion euro.
And that's quite a hit to the budgetary arithmetic for the budget that'll come in October.
But at the same time, they don't seem to have pleased anyone here.
The roads are still blocked today.
Protesters are still unhappy and saying that it's a little and not enough.
So essentially, the main thrust of it was to further cut the excise on fuel.
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