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• Irish meat haulage ground to a halt last week when farmers began a nationwide blockade of plants in protest at new meat inspection fees imposed by the factories. Raw materials could not be delivered to plants, nor could finished products be shipped out.
Farmers said they would continue their picket in defiance of a High Court injunction.
Trailers left inside meat plants could not be retrieved by hauliers. There are no reports of tractors being stranded in this way, but an Irish Road Haulage Association spokesperson points out that tractors without their trailers were of little use to hauliers who had already faced blockades by French hauliers, French farmers, and Welsh farmers.
Frustrated hauliers recalled that they obeyed a similar injunction served on them during their 1997 Dublin port stoppage.