Tralee thread

If they owned and ran the business before they became a TD what should they do? Close them down and have people lose a job over it?

The Healy-Raes are all loaded and probably inherited their millions from Jackie Healy-Rae, and have been adding their own piles to it since. They're the only ones who know how much time they devote to the "family" businesses, but I'm sure that there would be rumblings if people got wind that they weren't spending enough time representing their constituents.

Back in the "good" old days of the likes of Jimmy Deenihan, and probably Dan Kiely, I never heard anything about what they achieved or didn't achieve before they got turfed out by the electorate. I never saw them from one bit of election canvassing to the next. Michael Healy-Rae seems to be everywhere though, perhaps he's got clones? 😜