Jackie Healy-Rae recalls childhood poverty and hunger in 'Last Great Interview'
Jackie Healy-Rae — who died aged 83 on December 5, 2014 — barely mentioned politics in his final interview. Photo: Don MacMonagle
Jackie Healy-Rae’s last interview before he died is to air on Christmas Eve, in which he talks candidly about how members of his family grew up in extreme poverty and came close to starvation.
Dubbed as 'The Last Great Interview' by his TD son Michael, it was recorded in a hotel room about a year or two before the colourful patriarch of the Healy-Rae political dynasty passed away. Just one question was asked in the interview, and it took him just under an hour to answer it.
