[7][8][9][10][11] On 1 November 2011, members of the protest movement created a human roadblock on the main Cork-Limerick road against the following day's payment of a US$1 billion Anglo Irish Bank bond.
[12] In May 2012, the Fine Gael TD Áine Collins stirred controversy when she claimed at a private meeting with people representing the movement (also her constituents) that she found it difficult to live on €140,000 a year.
[14][7] On 27 March 2013, protestors from Ballyhea and neighbouring Charleville arrived in Brussels to meet members of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs committee, including chairman Sharon Bowles.
[19][20][21] By the 100th week of the event, the protest movement had attracted the attention of international media, including Aftenposten, Al Jazeera and The Washington Post, with camera crews travelling from as far as Australia, France, Germany and Korea.
[25] Wrote Fintan O'Toole in The Irish Times: "Theirs is a dignified, persistent and good-humoured protest against the bailout of bank bondholders that has had such profound consequences for Ireland.