Alison O’Connor doesn’t understand rural Ireland

I wish to draw your attention to the sarcastic attitude displayed by your columnist, Alison O’Connor towards the election of Mr. Michael and Mr. Danny Healy Rae as TD’s for Kerry on RTE on the weekend of the election.

Michael Healy Rae got a mandate of nearly 20,000 first preference votes from the people of Kerry and his brother Danny got over 10,000.

I am aware of people in my locality who travelled from their jobs in high finance in Dublin to vote for the above TDs - one particular person with a Masters in Finance Project Management.