Post Tagged with: "Michael Healy Rae"

A KERRY TD has called on the HSE to explore the possibilities of purchasing the old Edenburn Hospital for use for further public residential care for older people. The site which was previously used as a convalescent home and hospital closed in 1988 is located just ten minutes from Tralee. […]

DEPUTY Michael Healy Rae and fellow Independent TDs have called for a meeting with the Government and the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) to come up with a more imaginative approach to facilitate rural pubs being able to reopen. Yesterday it was announced that pubs not serving food would remain […]

DEPUTY Michael Healy Rae has called on the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government Darragh O’Brien to substantially overhaul the process of lodging a planning objection as he says some people are making a living out of objecting to peoples planning application with many not living within the country. […]

DEPUTY Michael Healy Rae has called on the newly appointed Minister for Higher Education, Innovation and Research Simon Harris to ensure a clear and consistent approach on the return to third level for students, at least during first semester is provided immediately. The Kerry Independent TD said many rural parents […]

WHERE did he find the time? Kerry Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae has written a book which will be released in the autumn. ‘Time To Talk’ is described as “neither a manifesto nor a memoir”. He speaks about the biggest regret of his life – he didn’t have time to talk when […]

CBS Primary School pupils are a tough lot when it comes to asking questions of well known people. In the past Darragh O Sé and Aidan O’Mahony have revealed some interesting facts about themselves to the pupils in the Radio Kerry studio. This time, Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae answered […]

WELL we won’t see Nancy Myles opening again as a pub. Kerry Independent TD, Michael Healy Rae, owns the property and has applied for planning permission to redevelop the building which ceased operating as a public house/restaurant some years ago. He is seeking permission from the Council to change the […]

KERRY Independent Deputy Michael Healy Rae has called the British people’s decision to exit the European Community as “an affront to our society”. The British people voted by  52% to 48% to leave the European Union yesterday. In a statement on his Facebook page this morning, the Kilgarvan man also […]

THE Healy-Rae bandwagon rolled up to Kildare Street this morning and there was a hooley on the street for the supporters (see video below). But before Michael headed up to the capital, he was in Ballyroe last night to strut his stuff on the catwalk to help raise funds for […]

MICHAEL Healy Rae expressed his thanks to the people of Tralee for their votes and said he and his brother will be fighting for the town when they take their places in the Dail. Despite coming from the south of the county, Michael polled over 4,000 first preference votes in […]

WHILE vote management has been going on for years in political parties, the Healy Raes are taking it to a fine art…or cartography in this case. They have released a colour-coded map of Kerry which shows precisely which areas they are looking for No.1 and No.2 votes for Michael and Danny. It’s […]

IT’S become a bit of a forgotten art form of electioneering, but the Healy Raes do have a thing for preserving old ways and traditions. With the general election around the corner, Micheal Healy Rae features in a new video to soundtrack his campaign with a reworking of farm machinery cult-classic ‘Hit the […]

IT looks like Michael Healy Rae and Martin Ferris formed some sort of pact at the Office Chair Racing  event on The Mall this afternoon. The lighthearted fun, organised by Tralee Chamber Alliance in aid of St Vincent de Paul, was lit up by a ‘coalition’ between the two Kerry […]

KERRY South TD Michael Healy-Rae had an unusual request for the Taoiseach last night in the Dáil, eventually getting him to agree to be interviewed on Radio Kerry. During the Order of Business on Tuesday evening, Healy-Rae said to Enda Kenny that he was the only Taoiseach to have refused to go on Radio Kerry […]

  KERRY’S six TDs have received almost €3m in salaries and expenses since their election to the Dail in March 2011, to July of 2014, according to a report by the RTE Investigations Unit. Five of the TDs received over half a million euro each. Kerry South Fine Gael Brendan Griffin earned […]

A CROWD of around 400 people took part in a march through Tralee on Saturday, to protest against water charges. The protest was organised by a combination of parties and organisations including Mandate, Unite, Sinn Fein, Right2Water, Independent TDs and councillors. “We all came together in this campaign; people from […]