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Fuel protests escalate: Gardaí move in around 4am — “the state has shown its true vicious teeth”.

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TL;DR
  • Around 4 o’clock on Sunday morning Gardaí moved in on the O’Connell Bridge protesters, whose trucks and tractors had lined both sides of O’Connell Street; the protest — completely peaceful, Dooley says — began on Tuesday. There was no engagement beforehand despite prior contact with the protest leaders, he says, and by morning only some trucks remain and a lot of the protesters have gone.
  • The last 24 hours he calls disgraceful: riot-squad attacks on peaceful protesters in Cork — where a 14-year-old boy was pepper-sprayed yesterday, he says — farmers pulled from their tractors, and, he believes, “disgraceful scenes” still ongoing in Galway and Rosslare still blockaded.
  • He lays the crackdown at Micheál Martin, Simon Harris and Jim O’Callaghan — “the Fianna Fáil leader in waiting, possible future Taoiseach” — while, he says, Jack Chambers attends the Bilderberg meeting in a plush Washington D.C. hotel “getting a few instructions from his corporate bosses”; when the corporations and the political establishment move together, Dooley says, “it becomes fascism”.
  • The hypocrisy, he argues: professed concern for missed hospital appointments from an establishment that let children die “in agony” on scoliosis waiting lists, with people sleeping in doorways near Leinster House — he invokes the Dublin Metropolitan Police’s 1913 Bloody Sunday baton charge on O’Connell Street and the Black and Tans, quotes James Connolly on being free only “when we own everything from the plough to the stars”, and says yesterday’s oil trucks came from Whitegate, a once publicly owned refinery now in the hands of a Canadian oil company making massive windfalls.
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00:00

Hi everyone

Hi everyone. Sunday morning Dublin city here on O'Connell Bridge. In the last few hours the few protesters who were located here at O'Connell Bridge and O'Connell Street and had trucks and tractors all the way up both sides of O'Connell Street have been moved in on by the Guardi. Now, there are there's only a number of trucks still left on O'Connell Street. Protesters a lot have gone and uh this is absolutely disgraceful.

In the last 24 hours we've seen the disgraceful attacks by the Guardi and the riot squad on peaceful protesters in Foynes Gate in Cork. We've also seen the disgraceful scenes in Galway. I believe currently ongoing. And also I believe Rosslare is still blockaded as well. Now this started on Tuesday and the ones over down here were completely peaceful. Uh we're here standing up for ordinary working people's rights in terms of what's taking place with the cost of.

Living disaster and the fuel chaos. And as I've as I've spoken about in many videos, the Irish government have responded by using the heavy hand of the police force and the state has shown its true vicious teeth in the last 24 hours. They've engaged with protesters and those protest leaders down here as well in advance of this and there was no engagement before they went in and moved in us around 4:00 this morning. Absolutely disgraceful.

Well people need to stand up about what's going on in our society now and stand up against the political establishment who have no interest in representing the people of Ireland. Only a a globalist cabal. Currently we have Jack Chambers of us Bilderberg meeting in Washington D.C. getting a few instructions from his corporate bosses. And of course, when they say when the corporations and the political establishment move together, it becomes fascism. We've already seen the state operate.

Like such a way over the last 24 hours. Particularly being driven by Micheál Martin, Simon Harris, the Laois Independent, and and Jim O'Callaghan, the Fianna Fáil leader in waiting, possible future Taoiseach. This is the way they respond, rather than sit down and talk to people and have dialogue and diplomacy, they used the batons, pepper spray a 14-year-old young boy yesterday in Cork, and pulling farmers from their tractors.

02:44

So, this is what the true face of the

So, this is what the true face of the state does when you stand up against them. Ordinary people need Ordinary working people need to come together and stand up and organize against what's going on in our society currently, because it's absolutely disgraceful. Uh there is more and more people being left behind because of successive government policies, and it's just going to get worse in terms of the oil chaos and fuel chaos that's coming down the tracks in terms of.

“So, this is what the true face of the state does when you stand up against them”

The wider economy and the financial implications for those at the sharpest end of society. And the hypocrisy coming from the establishment is breathtaking. Say that they care about people missing hospital appointments. They don't care about those children who suffered and died in agony on scoliosis waiting lists, and many many who are dying on the streets of Dublin. And even this morning, I passed so many people sleeping in doorways, not too far from Leinster House, where they all pretend to care.

About people. They're more interested in in saving face for their European masters in Brussels, and their globalist bosses like Jack Chambers is meeting this weekend in plush hotel in Washington D.C. Rather than sitting there and talking with the people. But it demonstrates really for everybody what the state really is in terms of the power they use and they use a brute force. We have already had experience of that in Ireland for years and years in terms of generations ago.

With the Black and Tans. And now we have the army and police force turned on citizens of the state. So much for a police and boy consent. But but this is the top-down dictats being issued by the establishment that go against the interests of ordinary working people. Look back at our history. Remember 1913 where the Dublin Metropolitan Police with the British of course baton charged workers off the streets up here in O'Connell Street and killed them during.

Bloody Sunday. And people stood up after that as well. But this is part of the process in terms of standing up for sovereignty and independence and their neutrality and the interests of ordinary working people. In the words of James Connolly, we'll only be free when we own everything from the plow to the stars. And yesterday they transported oil trucks from Whitegate which was a previously public um owned oil refinery that's now in the hands of a Canadian oil company making.

Massive windfalls. Part of the privatization neoliberal agenda of Irish political establishment. So, thanks for the support today and O'Connell Street.

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12 Apr 2026 · Civil Rights · 5:25

Fuel protests escalate: Gardaí move in around 4am — “the state has shown its true vicious teeth”.

Sunday morning on O’Connell Bridge, day six of the fuel protests: Gardaí moved in around 4am on the protesters whose trucks and tractors had lined both sides of O’Connell Street, with riot-squad scenes in Cork, “disgraceful scenes” in Galway and Rosslare, Dooley believes, still blockaded. He argues the state has shown its “true vicious teeth” — answering peaceful protest over the cost-of-living disaster with batons and pepper spray rather than dialogue.

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TL;DR
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Around 4 o’clock on Sunday morning Gardaí moved in on the O’Connell Bridge protesters, whose trucks and tractors had lined both sides of O’Connell Street; the protest — completely peaceful, Dooley says — began on Tuesday. There was no engagement beforehand despite prior contact with the protest leaders, he says, and by morning only some trucks remain and a lot of the protesters have gone.
02
The last 24 hours he calls disgraceful: riot-squad attacks on peaceful protesters in Cork — where a 14-year-old boy was pepper-sprayed yesterday, he says — farmers pulled from their tractors, and, he believes, “disgraceful scenes” still ongoing in Galway and Rosslare still blockaded.
03
He lays the crackdown at Micheál Martin, Simon Harris and Jim O’Callaghan — “the Fianna Fáil leader in waiting, possible future Taoiseach” — while, he says, Jack Chambers attends the Bilderberg meeting in a plush Washington D.C. hotel “getting a few instructions from his corporate bosses”; when the corporations and the political establishment move together, Dooley says, “it becomes fascism”.
04
The hypocrisy, he argues: professed concern for missed hospital appointments from an establishment that let children die “in agony” on scoliosis waiting lists, with people sleeping in doorways near Leinster House — he invokes the Dublin Metropolitan Police’s 1913 Bloody Sunday baton charge on O’Connell Street and the Black and Tans, quotes James Connolly on being free only “when we own everything from the plough to the stars”, and says yesterday’s oil trucks came from Whitegate, a once publicly owned refinery now in the hands of a Canadian oil company making massive windfalls.
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5:25
Transcript · auto-captions, polish pending

Hi everyone

Hi everyone. Sunday morning Dublin city here on O'Connell Bridge. In the last few hours the few protesters who were located here at O'Connell Bridge and O'Connell Street and had trucks and tractors all the way up both sides of O'Connell Street have been moved in on by the Guardi. Now, there are there's only a number of trucks still left on O'Connell Street. Protesters a lot have gone and uh this is absolutely disgraceful.

In the last 24 hours we've seen the disgraceful attacks by the Guardi and the riot squad on peaceful protesters in Foynes Gate in Cork. We've also seen the disgraceful scenes in Galway. I believe currently ongoing. And also I believe Rosslare is still blockaded as well. Now this started on Tuesday and the ones over down here were completely peaceful. Uh we're here standing up for ordinary working people's rights in terms of what's taking place with the cost of.

Living disaster and the fuel chaos. And as I've as I've spoken about in many videos, the Irish government have responded by using the heavy hand of the police force and the state has shown its true vicious teeth in the last 24 hours. They've engaged with protesters and those protest leaders down here as well in advance of this and there was no engagement before they went in and moved in us around 4:00 this morning. Absolutely disgraceful.

Well people need to stand up about what's going on in our society now and stand up against the political establishment who have no interest in representing the people of Ireland. Only a a globalist cabal. Currently we have Jack Chambers of us Bilderberg meeting in Washington D.C. getting a few instructions from his corporate bosses. And of course, when they say when the corporations and the political establishment move together, it becomes fascism. We've already seen the state operate.

Like such a way over the last 24 hours. Particularly being driven by Micheál Martin, Simon Harris, the Laois Independent, and and Jim O'Callaghan, the Fianna Fáil leader in waiting, possible future Taoiseach. This is the way they respond, rather than sit down and talk to people and have dialogue and diplomacy, they used the batons, pepper spray a 14-year-old young boy yesterday in Cork, and pulling farmers from their tractors.

So, this is what the true face of the

So, this is what the true face of the state does when you stand up against them. Ordinary people need Ordinary working people need to come together and stand up and organize against what's going on in our society currently, because it's absolutely disgraceful. Uh there is more and more people being left behind because of successive government policies, and it's just going to get worse in terms of the oil chaos and fuel chaos that's coming down the tracks in terms of.

“So, this is what the true face of the state does when you stand up against them”

The wider economy and the financial implications for those at the sharpest end of society. And the hypocrisy coming from the establishment is breathtaking. Say that they care about people missing hospital appointments. They don't care about those children who suffered and died in agony on scoliosis waiting lists, and many many who are dying on the streets of Dublin. And even this morning, I passed so many people sleeping in doorways, not too far from Leinster House, where they all pretend to care.

About people. They're more interested in in saving face for their European masters in Brussels, and their globalist bosses like Jack Chambers is meeting this weekend in plush hotel in Washington D.C. Rather than sitting there and talking with the people. But it demonstrates really for everybody what the state really is in terms of the power they use and they use a brute force. We have already had experience of that in Ireland for years and years in terms of generations ago.

With the Black and Tans. And now we have the army and police force turned on citizens of the state. So much for a police and boy consent. But but this is the top-down dictats being issued by the establishment that go against the interests of ordinary working people. Look back at our history. Remember 1913 where the Dublin Metropolitan Police with the British of course baton charged workers off the streets up here in O'Connell Street and killed them during.

Bloody Sunday. And people stood up after that as well. But this is part of the process in terms of standing up for sovereignty and independence and their neutrality and the interests of ordinary working people. In the words of James Connolly, we'll only be free when we own everything from the plow to the stars. And yesterday they transported oil trucks from Whitegate which was a previously public um owned oil refinery that's now in the hands of a Canadian oil company making.

Massive windfalls. Part of the privatization neoliberal agenda of Irish political establishment. So, thanks for the support today and O'Connell Street.

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