Ballyhea Says No ends weekly marches over bondholder bailouts

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.

Social Democrat TD Catherine Murphy and independent MEP Luke “Ming” Flanagan joined the last of the weekly protests that for five years have put the tight-knit North Cork community on the map as home to a protest movement focusing on the bondholder bailouts that were part of a government policy that have so far cost the state €67.8bn in bank recapitalisation.

Diarmuid O’Flynn wielded the small wooden placard that he used on Ballyhea Says No’s first march five years ago as he addressed the crowd gathered in the car park across the road from St Mary’s church. “The first day we were out this was all we had,” he said.