Watch: Tractors on M50 as fuel protests move into day 4
Protesters brought traffic on the M50 to a standstill today (Friday, April 10) as tractors and lorries blocked one of the main routes into Dublin city centre on day four of the fuel price protests.
According to Transport Infrastructure for Ireland (TII) there is "significant" disruption across the national road/motorway network".
TII said this is impacting counties Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, Laois, Offaly, Kildare, Galway, Cork, and Dublin.
"TII’s network operations are working closely with the Garda Traffic Core to assist in managing the on-going traffic distribution.
"TII requests that all road users leave the hard shoulder available for emergency services. The protest is mobile at times and can impact different regions at different times," the state agency said this morning.
It also warned that people in many parts of the country can expect "significant delays" to their journeys and may need to use a different route.
Separately An Garda Síochána said it is continuing to "engage extensively with those taking part in fuel protests across the country to facilitate peaceful protest while protecting public safety".
A roundtable discussion will take place later today with government representatives, farmer representative organisations, hauliers, and contractors over rising fuel costs.
The meeting will be hosted at Agriculture House in Dublin by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon, Minister for Transport Darragh O'Brien, and Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Timmy Dooley.
The Minister for Rural Community Development Dara Calleary had indicated earlier today that while national representative bodies had been invited to attend the meeting, the government would not dictate who could also attend the meeting, if they were invited by one of these bodies.
But so far there has been no firm confirmation from any of the key organisers of the fuel price protests if they will attend.
Fuel price protests
The group behind the protests across the country - the People Of Ireland Against Fuel Prices Protest - has vowed that the protests will continue until "the government listen to the people of Ireland".
