Traders at the Milk Market in Limerick city are reporting a drop in footfall due to the fuel protests which have left hundreds of service stations in the mid west without fuel.
A number of traders from Kerry, Tipperary, Cork and Wexford contacted the Milk Market trustees to say they would not be able to make it to Limerick due to a lack of fuel.
A market trader from Wexford told the trustees that it would not pay to drive her produce to Limerick due to the cost of fuel.
Ciara Brennan has a stall selling vegan food called Happy Food at Home.
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She said her business has been affected "hugely" by the protests.
"There’s been a huge loss in business this week because obviously people can’t get to us. I have a deli on the Ballysimon Road and people aren’t coming into us," she said.
"Hugely impacted by trying to get provisions in, some groceries," Ms Brennan said. "It is having such an impact on everything."
"I have another stall in Ennis and travelling out there yesterday was horrendous. It took me an hour to get there and two and a half hours to get back," she added,
She said she hopes there is good communication on both sides and that the concerns of the protesters are heard.
Elsewhere, a fuel delivery came from Dublin to Foynes in Co Limerick last night, filling the tanks of Reidy's Circle K.
The service station was due a fuel delivery on Wednesday but a fuel truck leaving the Whitegate terminal was stuck behind the blockade in Co Cork.
39,000 litres of diesel and petrol was delivered at 11.30pm last night.
The Reidy family, proprietors of the service station, contacted emergency workers and people working in essential services in the area, to make them aware of the fuel delivery.
There has been a steady stream of traffic arriving in Foynes since word got out about the fuel delivery.
