Maura Healy-Rae formally co-opted onto Kerry County Council

The eldest daughter of Danny Healy-Rae has been co-opted onto Kerry County Council in a seat vacated by her father on his election to Dáil Éireann.

“It used to be three Healy-Raes for the price of one, now it is four,” Danny told the meeting. Maura Healy-Rae, 25, a teacher of English and history at St Brogan’s in Bandon Co Cork, is the fourth of the six Healy-Rae children of Danny and his wife Eileen.

The seat in the Killarney Municipal District was occupied by Ms Healy-Rae’s late grandfather and former TD Jackie who was elected to Kerry County Council in 1973. Ms Healy-Rae was proposed by her brother Johnny who represents South and West Kerry — an area, his father pointed out, which is larger geographically than many Dáil constituencies.