One year on: Village vows to continue protest

It’s been a long, lonely crusade, marching through their village against the State’s multi-billion bank bailout policy.

But as they marked the first anniversary of their protest yesterday, the people of this quiet rural North Cork parish — which has been christened the “Irish village that said ‘No’ to austerity” — said they can sense a change in the wind.

And the people of Ballyhea vowed to march on for as long as it takes.