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Blockade at the country’s only oil refinery continues

Apr 10, 2026 07:37
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Blockade at the country’s only oil refinery continues

It’s one of the locations the Justice Minister said the Defence Forces could be deployed to remove the blockades

A blockade at the country’s only oil refinery continues in county Cork this morning.

Protestors including farmers, hauliers and contractors have set up a marquee tent and industrial lights at the bottom of an access road to the Irving Oil refinery in Whitegate.

It’s one of the locations the Justice Minister said the Defence Forces could be deployed to remove the blockades.

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Jane Morrison is a farmer and spent the last two nights at the entrance to the refinery:

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