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The anger among farmers who have protested over the past two days in Dublin is very real and has been building toward breaking point over the past six months.
Gardaí have confirmed that air patrols are being deployed at night to prevent raids by criminal gangs on some of the country's remotest Christmas tree farms.
Farmers have threatened to bring Dublin to a standstill again before Christmas if their demands aren't met after their tractor protest was lifted.
No voice should be so loud that it can demand that we listen to it. Farmers who visited two days of traffic chaos on the capital nonetheless felt entitled to turn up the decibel level to deafening point, in their drive to be heard.
