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🚨Fuel protest convoys disrupt routes into Dublin, as anger over rising costs grows.

🚨Could rationing come next?

🚨Meanwhile, tensions rise ahead of a deadline set by Donald Trump over Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

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"We've a Government here that's giving away millions and millions...we should look after our own people first - then help other countries," says John Dallon, a farmer and agriculture contractor. #VMNews

"The Government has saved the economy," says Fine Gael TD Barry Ward. #TonightVMTV @barrymward.bsky.social

Ciara O'Loughlin, Political Correspondent, The Irish Mirror, doesn't believe new measures will be introduced following today's protests. #TonightVMTV

"There are definite concerns among the business community about how long this will last", says Dublin Town CEO, Richard Guiney. #TonightVMTV

"The farmers of Ireland are the people that put the food on the table" and it is going to get more expensive, says John Dallon, a farmer and agriculture contractor. #TonightVMTV

"This Government is taking more in every single litre of tax than the whole supply chain in terms of the delivery of oil," says Peadar Tóibín TD.

"If you look at what the government has done...relative to other European countries, it is as good if not better,"
says Fine Gael TD Barry Ward.
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On #TonightVMTV at 10.20pm with Shane Coleman:    

🚨Fuel protest convoys disrupt routes into Dublin, as anger over rising costs grows.

🚨Could rationing come next?

🚨Meanwhile, tensions rise ahead of a deadline set by Donald Trump over Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

🗣️ “There is Irish fingerprints all over this moon rocket,” says @ollopa11.bsky.social

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🗣️ “It really is all about politics,”

🗣️ “There is real potential from the moon, and that's what they're looking at, the commercial option,” says @ollopa11.bsky.social.

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🗣️ “Where our weight is and where I voice is strong is in our neutrality,” says Jennifer Whitmore TD, Social Democrats

🗣️ “We are a laggard when it comes to defence spending… they look at us with a degree of embarrassment,” says @mcconnelldaniel.bsky.social 

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🗣️ “The falling apart of NATO raises profound questions,” says @mcconnelldaniel.bsky.social

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🗣️ “I think the president is feeling immense pressure at this point because the mixed messaging has just been terrible,” says @Amy Tarkanian, Republican Strategist.

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🗣️ “You just threw money at it,”

🗣️ “You gave 100 million euro to the electricity meters of holiday homes – it was a complete waste of money,” says Jennifer Whitmore TD, Social Democrats.

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🗣️ “I have very little confidence that this Government has the balls, quite frankly, to face down the populist calls we get and listen to what businesses need,” says @mcconnelldaniel.bsky.social 

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🗣️ “If you have a supply crisis, the way to match that is to reduce your demand for it,” says Prof Lisa Ryan, UCD.

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🗣️ “We tend to lurch, in this country, from crisis to crisis… but what we don't actually do is put in sustainable measures,” says Jennifer Whitmore TD, Social Democrats.

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🗣️ “The government should do what it can do – but we may not be able to shield everybody from the effects of the medium-term crisis,” says Shane Moynihan TD., Fianna Fáil.

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🗣️ “This has the potential to be worse than the fuel crisis in '73, '76 and Ukraine in '22 combined,” says @mcconnelldaniel.bsky.social 

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As energy prices rise and fuel supplies face disruption, the EU recommends working from home and reducing travel to save fuel.

Would you work home or drive less to save energy?

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On #TonightVMTV at 10pm with Shane Coleman:    

🚨 Trump says US can leave Iran “pretty quickly” - but will he depart NATO too?

🚨 Aviation fuel disruption expected from May, with fares to rise & possible advice to cut travel

🚨 The first crewed mission to the Moon since 1972

🗣️ “50% of electricity demand in Dublin is data centres,"

Energy use by data centres is under scrutiny as rising costs and warnings of prolonged disruption hit Irish households.

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The Tonight Show Podcast · Virgin Media Originals · A sharp look at the major stories shaping Ireland and the world.Expect thoughtful analysis and robust discussion on the country’s only independent TV current affairs programme. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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🚨 EU warns of prolonged energy disruption - could rationing follow?

🚨 Trump tells allies to “get your own oil”, with mixed signals on Iran war progress

🚨 Israel plans to destroy homes near Lebanon border, displacing thousands.

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🗣️ “It is an apartheid law - it just further confirms that Israel is an apartheid state,”

🗣️ “It is despicable, it's terrible that it is the situation that exists in Israel today,”

🗣️ “When it was passed last night, there were champagne celebrations,”

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🗣️ “Who talked about tariffs first? It was Donald Trump. Now that's something that could be flipped back on him by the Iranians,”

🗣️ “One thing's for certain, the people that come out the best in this is the Iranian regime – should they survive,”

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🗣️ “At what point will Israel be held to account by the international community?”

🗣️ “They are not just killing millions of people in the region, but also causing pain and hardship for the entire world through an economic crisis,”

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🗣️ “That leaves the whole region questioning the strength of conventional US military power,” says Patrick Bury, former British Army Captain and NATO analyst.

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