Elaine Loughlin: Who do Healy-Rae and the Rural Independents actually represent?

One by one, Michael Healy-Rae and his fellow Rural Independent men stood up last week in the Dáil to poke holes at a bill to provide our working poor with a living wage.

It seems members of the Rural Independents are for poor people when they burn turf, but against them when they go out to work.

Or maybe it's the other way round? Getting to the nub of what they really believe is akin to deciphering Mayan script.