At home with the Healy-Raes

At least Jackie Healy-Rae was partly right when announcing at the start of yet another TV probe into the Kerry political dynasty: “We’re like Santa Claus, we’re everywhere”.

At home with the Healy-Raes

Given that a chunk of this TV3 look at their lives is given over to the reaction of TD Michael Healy-Rae to criticism of him writing while driving during a recent RTÉ documentary, it is certainly true that the clan are hard to avoid.

But Santa Claus? Yes, they have certainly delivered many goodies to their South Kerry constituents, but at what price to the country as a whole?

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