Irish police used pepper spray in a joint operation with the armed forces to disperse protesters who had blockaded an oil refinery. Gardai took an hour to clear the demonstrators outside County Cork’s Whitegate refinery, the source of Ireland’s entire supply of petrol and diesel. Farmers, hauliers and taxi drivers had blocked access to the site for five days with slow-moving convoys and vehicles parked across the road. The protest against sky-high fuel prices caused by the Iran war had seen

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