A prominent fuel protester had told media outlets that if a meeting with Government was on the table the fuel blockade would be lifted.
However, even when a meeting was scheduled, the blockade remained in place.
So what happened?
Speaking on BBC News earlier this week, Christopher Duffy said: "One phone call to tell us we have a meeting with Government to get the fuel price down, and the city is clear."
But in a social media post on Thursday night, Mr Duffy appeared to contradict that position when he addressed a group of protesters on Dublin's O'Connell Street.
Mr Duffy told the crowd: "We said when we got our meeting we would go home, well we're not.
"We're going home when we see what we get at the meeting."
The comment was greeted with cheers and applause from the protesters.
"There is not a f***ing oil truck moving in this country until we get what we want because if we can't afford it, they can't f***ing have it."
"We have the country by the balls!" he added.
Earlier today, Taoiseach Micheál Martin described the comments made by Mr Duffy in the social media video as "deeply disturbing".
The Taoiseach made reference to last night's social media video today on RTÉ's News at One.
Mr Martin: "Chris Duffy's remarks last night were deeply disturbing, and this is what we are dealing with, and others likewise have made comments about closing down the country."
He added: "No self-appointed group can close down the country."
Mr Duffy took to social media earlier this morning to defend the position. He said: "We requested a meeting for us with the Government."
But Mr Duffy said that the only meetings scheduled were with established industry representatives.
He said: "There was a meeting scheduled for the organisations. The associations that keep going into Leinster House and coming out with nothing.
"Our choice was to refuse the meeting and no talks get going, or accept the meeting and get into the door and it's a start. That is why you are still here."
Asked about the contrast with what he said last night to protesters that it wasn't only a meeting they wanted and that they would only "go home when we see what we get", Mr Duffy said he is "under a lot of pressure at the moment", and he asked the journalist if he had "ever said anything that was mistaken".
Meanwhile, another protest organiser, James Geoghegan, told RTÉ's Liveline today that what is happening now is a "revolution".
He said the Taoiseach was not in control, "the people of Ireland are in control".
"They have every motorway and road blocked in Ireland, nearly have every business shut down and this is going to change Ireland forever because the people of Ireland are sick and tired of being bullied and robbed for years and it ends today," he added.
