The final 'Ballyhea Says No' protest march took place today in the north Cork village with upwards of 80 people from across the country, including a number of politicians, attending.
Organiser Diarmuid O'Flynn told the gathering it was time to call an end to the protest as they had failed to get bank debt justice for Ireland.
However, he said he had no regrets - 'at least we had tried".
The 'Ballyhea Says No' protest march was first held nine years ago to highlight people's outrage at the decision of the Government to pay billions of euros to bail out the bondholders during the economic crash of 2008.
Weekly marches were held in the village for over six years - but most recently they have been monthly.
Mr O'Flynn told the crowd "this was never a battle for a small group, in a small parish, in a small country to fight, this was a battle our politicians should have been fighting for us from the very beginning".
Over the years, the protest was taken to other cities and towns including Dublin and Brussels and to the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt.
Today's final march through the village - which lies on the main Cork to Limerick road - took less than 15 minutes and was finished just before traffic for 11am mass started arriving.
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MEP Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, former MEP Marian Harkin and Green Party politician Saoirse McHugh joined the marchers, many of whom had been attending the weekly protest since the beginning.
