Readers blog: Danny Healy-Rae’s fairy tale is a fable about heeding nature

Media commentators who mock the Kerry-based Independent TD, Danny Healy-Rae, for his belief in the fairies display their ignorance of an ancient belief system.

That system used by their ancestors to make sense of all manner of everyday occurrences, both good and bad.

Logic and science, of course, have since provided far more accessible explanations for these phenomena.