Johnny Healy-Rae
This just grim.
Radio Kerry reports:
County Councillor Johnny Healy-Rae denies his family attend the funerals of people they do not know. The councillor was responding to claims from Fianna Fáil County Councillor Michael Cahill, who said politicians attending the funerals of people they do not know is despicable.
…Councillor Healy-Rae says, while he does not send out funeral packages himself, he apologises to those who received the packages and did not want them.
The funeral packages the Healy-Raes send out consists of a mass card, a poem and information about entitlements.
Thud.
Any excuse
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This is a country-wide phenomenon. Not confined to Kerry, and TDs from all parties do it.
Ya know you’ve made it when a Minister attends your funeral….
made it to hell
it’s utterly despicable if they don’t know the person, how in good conscience can they do it. only a sick mind thinks that act is ok.
Probably the best place to post this :
http://i.imgur.com/WqKHSqk.jpg
That’s brilliant.
Wonderful!
Excellent.
Love it.
Reminds me of a bride’s request for the Robin Hood theme at her wedding ceremony.
Instead of the Brian Adams version she got the ‘Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen’ version.
Whatever about not buttoning his top button, could he not have closed his feckin mouth for that photo…
But then how would he be able to breathe
You spelt ‘breed’ wrong.
Either way, the problem is solved
Sure there are loads of Healy Raes he can breed with.
It’s a Grindr thing.
Why am I responding on multiple devices a level down the tree than I should be? That was @ edalicious.
It isn’t funny, but it is.
The politican, who used to park his car, at or near the church on the day of the funeral and then head off.
So folk would see the car and think he was there but was so humble he did not want to be noticed.
Yet he was not attending and could deny he had attended.
It’s an ecumenical matter.
Stop complicating things for the ordinary people.
The greatest slander you can legally get away with is to call a Politician a Politician.
-The beauty of it lies in it’s simplicity.
They’re all a bunch of
megalomaniacsdecent people, with YOUR interests at heart. They love you… You should love them back, you unthankfulpiece of…person.Grow up, people.
If you get stopped by the guards just say that you’re the love-child of one of the Healy-Raes. It’s like a free-pass.
And please, don’t tell anybody else…please.
You can go ‘whahh whah fucching whah whah all you like. It changes nothing.
Kerry needs to stop being so Kerry.
But when you say that, it makes them become EXTRA Kerry out of spite.
I think we should allow them a referendum to leave the republic. They are after all willing to be a kingdom which isn’t compatible with being part of a republic. They can crown a Healy-Rae as their monarch. Everyone will be much happier.
@pedeyw
Can you imagine Kerry without the inhabitants?
There could never be a more idyllic place to be.
-I’m serious.
Where was I reading about the H-Rs bringing bright coloured pens along to funerals, so that their signatures would stand out when signing the book of condolences?
Ah yes: http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/michael-and-danny-healy-rae-gombeen-men-or-political-geniuses-1.2715207
That could be a picture of a spoof politician character from a comedy “troupe”.
I love Kerry.
Dem b*st*rds in Wreck’s-fjord’ get better weather than me and you so shut up
You make me mad furious, jealous….
I love everybody, you gobpoo.
(Other people, NOT you. Cop on,)
But still, them sexy people in Wexford get better weather than me and you. I know I already said thjat. again I’ll do it again if you want., so I ought to go away…far away…into ‘Reality:
Goodnight.
Everybody LOVES me-they think I am cray-zee…
I pull my string and I do my thing….
http://imgur.com/a/603NT
If I received one of them packages if I knew them or didn’t I find them and ran them up their chocolate starfish. A horrible self promotion act at a family’s worst time. Sick.
Came to my fathers funeral, asked at the door who was dead. Shook every ones hand and left.
But that’s a Kerry thing.
Be seen at every funeral. Get the gossip. Talk poo. Grease wheels.
Networking isn’t all lattes and kale panini.
Kale panini? Who knew!
Well Danny Healy-Rae went to my father-in-law’s funeral and he hadn’t a clue who he was, in fact all he had to say at the removal was “my father says sorry he couldn’t come”.
Had he come, he would’ve had no idea who he was either.
Now you’re getting it…
It was never really complicated, it was just difficult to understand.
There’s a difference.
Am I a eejit?
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Hang on a minute…
[x] or [ Checked box symbol]..damn it…
Anne, please, how do you do this ‘cut ‘n’ paste’ nonsense again? I’ve forgotten.
It’s ‘Copy and Paste’, actually.
Excuse me…
Je ne suis pas caint as Gaeilge trop forte, ach tá me link agus mo ainm thuas sinn. If you click ar sinn you will comprehendez as laidar.
Ta go maith, agus cad a tharla?
A “mass” card? So only goes to the funerals of dead Rice Crispies then?
I think the package sounds like an OK idea. I’d imagine plenty of their constituents would be glad to have their entitlements spelled out at a time like that and an inkling of where to go if you needed to act on the information.
Just because people are grieving at a funeral doesn’t mean there’s a whole practical side that they have to deal with and which may be unfamiliar.
But that is all they do. Get info on grants, social welfare. All the info is available publicly, you don’t need these twits to get it for you.
But its their big con, making a show of how wonderful they they are “looking after” their constituents who are too lazy to look it up online, go to a library, citizens info office or social welfare office.
Between all of them, they have never contributed to the development of any legislation or anything on a national level.
Well I know all that, but if I were grieving I may not feel up to finding out all the information where ever it is available. I just think that it’s possible to be self serving and cynical and still manage to hit on something that may actually turn out to be useful.
Have you ever heard of a “funeral pack” from any other TD?
If you have a dying relative, health social workers provide the same info.
Utterly self serving.