Farmers carry central Dublin to a halt with tractor protest

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Farmers carry central Dublin to a halt with tractor protest

By Padraic Halpin


By Padraic Halpin

DUBLIN, Nov 27 (Reuters)Farmers shut down busy components of central Dublin for a second successive day on Wednesday by parking dozens of tractors within the streets to protest in opposition to low beef costs and local weather change initiatives they are saying are unfair.

The farmers arrived on tractors from all around the nation on Tuesday for a deliberate protest in a cordoned off space however as a substitute parked their automobiles within the very centre of town and refused to depart till the agriculture minister met them.

Some slept of their automobiles in a single day, many parked exterior the posh Shelbourne Resort on the nook of St. Stephen’s Inexperienced, one of many foremost bus routes into town.

Police warned commuters that quite a lot of town’s foremost thoroughfares, together with Kildare Road, the seat of parliament, had been closed to site visitors. The town’s bus operator instructed passengers to anticipate delays on all routes.

“We’ll sit right here for a lot of extra nights if now we have…



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