Alison O'Connor: At last! A multimillion euro landlord to tackle the privilege of urban TDs

Michael Healy-Rae keeps on piling up the millions while launching often nasty attacks on other parliamentarians

Michael Healy-Rae purports to have a particular connection with voters, and besmirches urban TDs as if they're some sort of elite — despite himself being the Dáil's biggest landlord. File picture: Don MacMonagle

IT’S the age-old political trope — “that crowd beyond in [name of city where the national parliament of a country resides] simply don’t understand the ordinary folk and the problems they face every day”.

We hear no end of it ourselves from a particularly raucous rump in the Dáil — the Rural Independent Group.