A group of protesters based in a small Co Cork village are today holding their 250th march.
'Ballyhea Says No' was founded in 2011, shortly after the last general election, to "protest at the imposition of private bank-debt on the Irish people".
The group has held a march every Sunday, after morning mass in the local church.
They have also held demonstrations in Dublin, and have received support from politicians including MEP Luke 'Ming' Flanagan and Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty.
The group says "our marches are quiet, dignified, without chants or fanfare, non-threatening, non-violent, minimal disruption to traffic. They should not, however, be underestimated.
"We have an iron determination, an unbreakable will, and the weekly march – small as it may be – underpins everything we do," they add.
After today's 250th march, participants will be meeting at Charleville Park Hotel to discuss their progress and future direction.
One of the group's founders, Diarmuid O'Flynn, is set to contest the upcoming general election as an Independent Alliance candidate for Cork North East.
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has expressed his solidarity with the group, saying his party "stands with you, and we share your view that we had no obligation to honour the debts of financial speculators and gamblers, and it is our children who will bear the cost of the government’s failure to effectively negotiate, at EU level, in the best interests of the Irish people.
“Your 250th week of protest is set against a backdrop in which the establishment is trying to ensure the publication of an incomplete and inadequate final report from the Banking Inquiry," Deputy Adams said, adding that Pearse Doherty refused to sign off on the inquiry's report.
