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Country on the brink of economic chaos as people panic-buy fuel and forecourts start to run dry.
Around half of Ireland's fuel supplies are currently inaccessible due to ongoing protests at terminals and the Whitegate refinery, prompting calls for government intervention from Fuels For Ireland.
Dozens of officers from Cork, Kerry and Limerick arrived in the village of Whitegate but the impasse remained
The fuel protests have shown us two things that have heightened the tension behind the issues.