Healy-Rae back home after bout of mystery illness

INDEPENDENT TD Michael Healy-Rae helped decorate the family Christmas tree yesterday just hours after he returned home from hospital in Dublin, where he was treated after taking ill in the Dáil.

The South Kerry TD said he was feeling much better 48 hours after being struck down by a mystery illness that saw him rushed from Leinster House by ambulance to St James’s Hospital on Friday.

Mr Healy-Rae yesterday said that doctors were baffled by the nature of his illness and he would have to attend his local GP for follow-up tests to determine the cause.