Founder of anti-austerity protest group to run in 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.

It is three years since Irish Examiner sports journalist Diarmuid O’Flynn and his north Cork neighbours began the demonstrations in protest at the EU/IMF bailout.

His decision to run, he says, was inspired by Dáil deputy Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan who recently told the marchers that they had to look at the upcoming local and European elections as an “enormous jobs advertisement” and to stop expecting other people to fight their fight.