'It's fine for him writing poetry, hardworking people need meat': Healy-Rae hits out at Michael D

'Who do they think they are codding?' — Kerry TD Danny Healy-Rae launches broadside against the President and the Tánaiste about climate change

Kerry TD Danny Healy-Rae lashed out at Michael D Higgins' speech at the Ploughing Championships urging farmers and citizens to 'play their part' in tackling climate change. File picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews

It is fine for a poetry writing president to have a non-meat diet, but hardworking people need protein, Kerry TD Danny Healy-Rae has said. 

Mr Healy-Rae was responding to remarks by President Michael D Higgins at the Ploughing Championships earlier this week, during which he called on Irish farmers and ordinary citizens to "play their part" in helping to tackle climate change.