Farmers shut down busy parts of central Dublin for a second successive day on Wednesday by parking dozens of tractors in the streets to protest against low beef prices and climate change initiatives they say are unfair.
The farmers arrived on tractors from all over the country on Tuesday for a planned protest in a cordoned off area but instead parked their vehicles in the very center of the city and refused to leave until the agriculture minister met them.
Some slept in their vehicles overnight, many parked outside the luxury Shelbourne Hotel on the corner of St. Stephen's Green, one of the main bus routes into the city.