Healy-Rae looks to hit redial and turn around phonecall fiasco

YOU wouldn’t put it past Michael Healy-Rae to try to turn events of recent days to his own advantage.

In fact, he’s been at that since Wednesday and, I suspect, he might just succeed where it matters, among the constituents of South Kerry (although John O’Donoghue is well placed to tell him that’ll be easier said than done).

Just how will he turn embarrassment to his advantage this you might ask? Well, in the classic tradition of Irish politics, Healy-Rae has looked to one of his father Jackie’s closest political allies, Michael Lowry, and taken a leaf from Lowry’s political play-book, the page that’s marked “play the victim and get people to feel sorry for you, after all you’ve done for them”.