Shay healy has died

Never realized he was 78,always though of him as I remember him from my youth. RIP

anewme wrote: »

RIP Shay Healy.

What's another Year, one of the best written Eurovision Winners and very apt for the past year we've had.

An excellent media career.

Wasnt Nighthawks responsible for Charlie Haugheys resignation? I believe it was to do with the phone tapping scandal.

What’s Another Year was definitely the best Irish Eurovision song - the only one that still has a life outside Eurovision. Shay Healey was a rare bird - a creative, free spirit in RTÉ. RIP.

But people misunderstand the Haughey business. Lots of media coverage today saying Nighthawks brought Haughey down. Not really, although that canny operator Sean Doherty used it to fire a shot at his former mentor.

Doherty wouldn’t dream of going on a serious political programme - he had too much political baggage. I used to think Doherty had set this up with Shay Healy but in his autobiography, Shay says he didn’t even understand the import of Doherty’s revelation until Doherty tipped him off after the show.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30232550.html
Who really knows why Haughey went when he did? He had seen off a “heave” from Albert Reynolds but he had to go into coalition with the Progressive Democrats, led by his nemesis, Dessie O’Malley. The PDs threatened to quit the coalition but Haughey could have hung on, even if it meant a general election. Would Haughey, the great survivor, fall on his sword because Sean Doherty, the epitome of cute hoor politicians, changed his tune about something that happened years before? I suspect that Haughey saw FF was too divided to face a general election and decided to go while he was still ahead of the game. But he hadn’t reckoned on Ben Dunne Jr. being caught with hookers and cocaine in Miami.