Healy-Raes defend their high attendance rate at funerals in Kerry

The Healy-Raes are defending their high attendance at funerals in Kerry, and also the so-called ‘bereavement packs’ they send to the families of deceased constituents.

Such is their devotion to funerals, the TD brothers, Michael and Danny, and their nephew, a councillor, often attend a number of funerals in any one day. Sometimes, all three Healy-Raes show up. The TD brothers left the general election count in Killarney, in February, to go to funerals to sympathise with the bereaved.

The so-called ‘bereavement pack’, with poem, Mass card and practical information, posted out by Deputy Michael Healy-Rae to families of the deceased, has also been criticised, but was strongly defended by the TD.