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The Healy Raes

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  • #602
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    You do know he's dead 10 years?
    Whats he up to by doing that :eek:


  • #603
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Danny HR back in the news with a repeat of what Coveney is rightly calling " dangerous nonsense" by seeking to allow Kerry rural residents to drink and drive. breakingnews,ie


  • #604
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    If you seen the contracts and sums awarded to the Healy Rae Plant hire business by Kerry Co Council your eyes would water.


  • #605
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    If you seen the contracts and sums awarded to the Healy Rae Plant hire business by Kerry Co Council your eyes would water.
    Would the Healy Raes do the drainage ?


  • #606
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    blinding wrote: »
    Would the Healy Raes do the drainage ?

    Probably but they'd do a bad job of it so it would have to be done again after a few years.


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  • #607
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Danny HR back in the news with a repeat of what Coveney is rightly calling " dangerous nonsense" by seeking to allow Kerry rural residents to drink and drive. breakingnews,ie
    He said irresponsible nonsense. Just like how Coveney was an irresponsible minister in a few positions that he held. Danny is away with the birds though.


  • #608
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    They should bring that halfwit into a room full of people whose loved ones have been killed by drunk drivers. Absolute bog trotting nonsense.


  • #609
    BPKS
    Registered Users Posts: 16,685 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    I'm not sure what I find funniest.

    The speech Healy Rae made.

    The predictable reaction of the outraged.

    Or the fact that the upset intellectuals can't see that this gombeen man is doing this to distract from votegate.


  • #610
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Looking forward to them knocking on my door next year.


  • #611
    liosnagceann75
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭liosnagceann75


    Maren Squeaking Sander wrote: »
    Looking forward to them knocking on my door next year.

    They don't bother knocking on mine as they know the welcome they'll get.


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  • #612
    nuac
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,769 Mod ✭✭✭✭nuac


    paleoperson wrote: »
    I had some sympathy for Jackie Healy Rae Senior - an old man set in this ways, some mental impairment no doubt setting in, global warming wasn't confirmed during the majority of his life, probably didn't finish second level education, against establishment D4 types who didn't understand Kerry, you know I get it, I'm from a farming background myself.

    But Michael Healy Rae has no excuses. I feel like he's selling a con, particularly to supporters of Jackie Healy Rae who see him as a continuation. There's no way Michael Healy Rae could be that irrational about climate change, drink driving, etc.

    I knew Jackie HR for many years. Always as sharp as a razor, no mental impairment


  • #613
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Maren Squeaking Sander wrote: »
    Looking forward to them knocking on my door next year.
    Don’t forget your Negligee or perhaps Fur Coat with no knicks .


  • #614
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,699 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    liosnagceann75 wrote: »
    They don't bother knocking on mine as they know the welcome they'll get.

    Straight in for tae and sweet cake?


  • #615
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    He said irresponsible nonsense. Just like how Coveney was an irresponsible minister in a few positions that he held. Danny is away with the birds though.

    And "dangerous" AND irresponsible. As it is as many there will take it as law as dear Danny said so.

    Danny's dangerous behaviour could cost lives of innocent folk.


  • #616
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    liosnagceann75 wrote: »
    They don't bother knocking on mine as they know the welcome they'll get.

    Old man neighbour when I lived in Kerry used to hide in his shed if they came round . Locked his gate and put up a large NO ENTRY sign., I agreed with him


  • #617
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,279 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    This latest craic about drink driving permits is pure deflection and distraction from the huge expenses they get and the fobbing in and out issue

    Danny in particular puts on this “man down from the mountains” routine in the media

    Have you ever met and spoken to him in real life?

    He’s extremely well spoken - perhaps similar to Francis Brennan’s brother if you know of him - or dick spring perhaps.

    This whole “im out fighting for rural ireland” is an act he puts on and god help us, he fools many with it.


  • #618
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,499 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    This latest craic about drink driving permits is pure deflection and distraction from the huge expenses they get and the fobbing in and out issue

    It's not working. I'd almost forgotten about the fob contraversy until they started mouthing off.
    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Danny in particular puts on this “man down from the mountains” routine in the media

    Have you ever met and spoken to him in real life?

    He’s extremely well spoken - perhaps similar to Francis Brennan’s brother if you know of him - or dick spring perhaps.

    This whole “im out fighting for rural ireland” is an act he puts on and god help us, he fools many with it.

    Really???? I didn't know that, so it's all an act. Jaysus. What a shambles.


  • #619
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,279 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Yep. He’s very well spoken in private.

    I actually will give a little more detail which is farcical - I met him as part of a lobby group for a voluntary association in a plush hotel very near Leinster House.

    He actually was discussing some of the more luxurious items on the menu and what he fancied for lunch.

    It was such a change from his “wild man of the mountains” public image I was taken aback.

    The Healy Rae’s are no fools.


  • #620
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    blinding wrote: »
    Don’t forget your Negligee or perhaps Fur Coat with no knicks .

    Why..just...why?


  • #621
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    liosnagceann75 wrote: »
    They don't bother knocking on mine as they know the welcome they'll get.
    Surely you will buy "de book" for Christmas. Michael will call up and sign it "personally"


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  • #622
    Igotadose
    Registered Users Posts: 12,914 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Maren Squeaking Sander wrote: »
    Looking forward to them knocking on my door next year.

    When one of their nieces showed up here for the last election (Kerry Gaeltacht,) we novice Irish speakers, asked her in Irish, did she speak irish? Blank stare. We said (again in Irish) this is a Gaeltacht region, everyone speaks Irish here (o.k... far from the truth, but we were having some fun.) She left us a flyer and fecked off.

    Our Irish is better now. We'll have different fun the next cycle.

    That said, multiple neighbors have told us, if we need to get anything done planning-wise, contact Michael Healy-Rae. My one contact with him (not about planning, about that greyhound documentary), got me a prompt reply. Contacts with the other TD's didn't get me any reply. Other neighbors report the same - phone calls returned at 7:30 a.m., things like that.

    I have hopes the offspring are less competent and get run out, but considering one is still under indictment for an assault charge and is likely to walk in order to take up his Council seat, I doubt it.


  • #623
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    This latest craic about drink driving permits is pure deflection and distraction from the huge expenses they get and the fobbing in and out issue

    Danny in particular puts on this “man down from the mountains” routine in the media

    Have you ever met and spoken to him in real life?

    He’s extremely well spoken - perhaps similar to Francis Brennan’s brother if you know of him - or dick spring perhaps.

    This whole “im out fighting for rural ireland” is an act he puts on and god help us, he fools many with it.

    You obviously haven't or he put on one hell of an act when he met you.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #624
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    For all their faults the Healy Raes seem to be the Best TDs in the Dail .

    I think that may say more about the other TDs than the Healy Raes .


  • #625
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Igotadose wrote: »

    That said, multiple neighbors have told us, if we need to get anything done planning-wise, contact Michael Healy-Rae. My one contact with him (not about planning, about that greyhound documentary), got me a prompt reply. Contacts with the other TD's didn't get me any reply. Other neighbors report the same - phone calls returned at 7:30 a.m., things like that.

    I have hopes the offspring are less competent and get run out, but considering one is still under indictment for an assault charge and is likely to walk in order to take up his Council seat, I doubt it.


    This whole "Oh the helped getting our planning through" is a bit of a cod.

    My friend who is a planner with a local authority says that TDs & Councillors will regularly seek updates on planning applications before the decision is made public. They know a few days in advance that the application has been successful but what they do then is ring the applicant making a big song and dance about all the work they did and to expect a favourable decision in a few days. In other words "I got it through for you."

    The favourable decision was already made but sure they make themselves look like they have done mighty work on your behalf when nothing could be further from the truth....:rolleyes:


  • #626
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Igotadose wrote: »
    When one of their nieces showed up here for the last election (Kerry Gaeltacht,) we novice Irish speakers, asked her in Irish, did she speak irish? Blank stare. We said (again in Irish) this is a Gaeltacht region, everyone speaks Irish here (o.k... far from the truth, but we were having some fun.) She left us a flyer and fecked off.

    Our Irish is better now. We'll have different fun the next cycle.

    That said, multiple neighbors have told us, if we need to get anything done planning-wise, contact Michael Healy-Rae. My one contact with him (not about planning, about that greyhound documentary), got me a prompt reply. Contacts with the other TD's didn't get me any reply. Other neighbors report the same - phone calls returned at 7:30 a.m., things like that.

    I have hopes the offspring are less competent and get run out, but considering one is still under indictment for an assault charge and is likely to walk in order to take up his Council seat, I doubt it.

    Em, as far as I know that's going to be dealt with in the District Court in Kerry not before a Grand Jury in America.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #627
    tjhook
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭tjhook


    blinding wrote: »
    For all their faults the Healy Raes seem to be the Best TDs in the Dail .


    Definitely not. But they could very well be the best local councillors in the Dáil.


  • #628
    Bellview
    Registered Users Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭Bellview


    Edgware wrote: »
    Surely you will buy "de book" for Christmas. Michael will call up and sign it "personally"

    can they buy the book and claim it against expenses ... bit like the calendars and give them out for free outside mass/funerals


  • #629
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    In fairness ...they rip the piss ..they are prolly on the make

    But there is no malice in them.

    Plus have you noticed they have the knack of getting attention and voter loyalty without being racist knobs?


  • #630
    Dual wheels
    Registered Users Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Dual wheels


    dude_abided wrote: »
    I thought they actually did quite well by their constituency from the sounds of it (building Kilgarvan road, providing for area etc). Irrespective of if you like them or not, surely that's showing democracy working?

    Shane Ross on the other hand....

    Yea I would have to agree, they serve their constituents better than any other flute in the Dáil, they advocate for rural Ireland, now, they are a pair of chancers and were swindling the expenses and Michael’s sons took illegal drugs and bet a man up, but I have a begrudging admiration for them


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  • #631
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    What have they achieved for kerry though? in reality?

    Drink drive permits??? Really ?

    They are pretty in touch with what people actually care about though.

    They see through to the irish soul.

    I think we should make both sides happy ..provide 'drunk buses' and they can have a drink on board too.


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