The fight will continue, said Ballyhea residents, as the North Cork village wrapped up five unbroken years of weekly Sunday protests against the bondholder bailouts yesterday.

“Don’t argue in front of the visitors” is obviously a warning which Shane Ross and his motley crew of independents never received as children.

Diarmuid O’Flynn still wants to burn bondholders, except now he aims to take his fight to the Dáil, writes Michael Clifford

Since Sunday March 2011, over four years ago, a small group of determined people have marched every week in protest at the imposition of private bank-debt on the Irish people.

The man who led the ‘Ballyhea Says No’ campaign against paying the bondholders has announced he is to run in the general election as an Independent Alliance candidate in Cork North-West.

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Tipperary stalwart John O’Donoghue is adamant the current crop of Premier County hurlers are not good enough to win an All-Ireland, believing their efforts to be hindered by a mental gap.

These are pivotal times in history, not just in Ireland but worldwide.

Our media highlighted outrage over a possible payment of €280m to junior bondholders in the wound-up banks — Anglo and Irish Nationwide — combined to form IBRC.

Water charge protesters have vowed to continue their campaign after the Government refused to abolish the levy following a massive rally in Dublin.

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It may yet prove to be a watershed moment for the Government.

On Monday evening last, The Bridge Bar, an institution in Ballyhea for a century, closed its doors.

During the recent European elections, Fine Gael candidates wouldn’t answer the following question: what will happen to the €300,000,000 the Central Bank gets when it sells the first of the promissory note sovereign bonds later this year. Will that money be destroyed?

Members of the Ballyhea Says No campaign are to meet the Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan today to discuss Ireland’s debt burden.

Hurling personalities on both sides of the Anthony Nash rule debate have raised concerns that the new interpretation may lead to more cynical fouling.

It’s been a surreal three weeks, my first foray into the world of politics and several lessons learned.

Despite the bitter rivalry between the Kelly, Clune, and Harris teams during the campaign, the battle plan succeeded in the end and the party nailed two seats in the South.

After a juggernaut of a count that lasted three days, Fine Gael’s Seán Kelly and Deirdre Clune joined Brian Crowley and Sinn Féin’s Liadh Ní Riada as Ireland South MEPs.

It was the only time he took it lying down — beaten but far from broken.

It was all about the ballots early in the morning as weary count staff wrestled their way through just over 657,000, 16.5in ballot papers in the Ireland South count centre yesterday.

Ireland South voting sensation Brian Crowley all but made a bid for the presidency as he recorded a fifth poll-topping European election, with his team likening him to the much- loved US president, Franklin Roosevelt.

Brian Crowley will once again top the poll in the Ireland South European elections with Sinn Féin newcomer Liadh Ní Riada and Fine Gael’s Seán Kelly on course to take the second and third seat.

FOR decades, Ireland had a pro-EU cartel at the centre of party politics.

She may be languishing in the opinion polls and at risk of losing her seat. But Labour MEP Phil Prendergast has generated more online conversation in the last six months than any other candidate in the Ireland South constituency.

The Labour Party is predicted to lose all its three seats in the European Parliament in May’s elections, with Sinn Féin taking them, according to bookmakers Paddy Power.

A local authority meeting was interrupted twice last night when anti-water tax protestors refused to sit down in the upper gallery of Cork’s City Hall.

Fianna Fáil is hoping to sweep up anti-pylon and anti-wind turbine rural votes in Cork, Tipperary, Waterford and Wexford by putting forward an outspoken anti-pylon campaigner in the European elections.

The founder of the anti- austerity “Ballyhea Says No” weekly marches has announced he will run as an Ireland South candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections.

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The Ballyhea group brought their battle to have Ireland’s massive debt cancelled to the European Parliament and today makes their case to the president of the member states’ Council.

Diarmuid O’Flynn: Was it the golden era?

Less than a week after Kilkenny’s shock July exit from the All-Ireland hurling championship Diarmuid O’Flynn travelled to the Marble City to gauge the reaction and mood in the county. In that famed hurling talk shop of Langton’s, former stars Noel Skehan, Michael Walsh and writer Enda McEvoy were in no mood to write obituaries about Brian Cody’s men.

In 1999, captained by Mark Landers, a young Cork team took the hurling world by storm, beating Kilkenny to ensure one of the most unlikely All-Ireland title wins, even in their own long history.

The Ballyhea protest group took their battle to write down Ireland’s banking debt to the European Commission and one of the key people in the troika.

Diarmuid O’Flynn says the promissory notes ‘deal’ “being trumpeted as a triumph by the Government” is an oversell (Letters, Mar 9).

Your rich and powerful neighbour drops you a line to let you know that, without your permission, without even asking your permission, he has arranged with your bank for you to pay his massive mortgage on his stately home, the terms and rate set by him.

The spokesman for the “Ballyhea Says No” movement has described the dramatic events of the past few days as “our worst fears confirmed” and said it was time for Irish people to take to the streets in mass protest.

It began as a pebble in the shoe of the ECB, but yesterday the refuseniks of Ballyhea rang up the 100th march against the bailout, continuing a display of defiance that shows no sign of stopping.