19 trucks leave Cork's Whitegate oil refinery but full recovery could 'take 10 days'

Fuels For Ireland chief executive says it will take 10 days as 'drivers burned up their weekly hours in behind convoys and sitting behind blockades'

Fuel trucks heading to the oil refinery under garda escort at Whitegate village on Saturday. Picture: Larry Cummins

Nineteen trucks of fuel left Whitegate oil refinery in East Cork on Sunday morning, with approximately 40 more due to leave by lunchtime.

Fuels For Ireland chief executive Kevin McPartlan said that it is not yet possible to establish how many service stations will remain out of fuel, but said that original projections of 1,000 being empty by the end of the weekend are now unlikely.