The Public Sector workers in Kerry are still protesting on TD’s doorsteps. A short video published this week gives me an opportunity to ponder on the special backbencher that is Jackie Healy Rae.

From his website

June 1997. The night Jackie Healy-Rae was elected TD for South Kerry the scene in Killarney was like Puck Fair, the Rose of Tralee and a Kerry welcome for the Sam McGuire Cup rolled into one. The party went on for weeks as the new TD went back over pot-holed roads to the villages and parishes that had
sent him to Leinster House with such a resounding mandate.

In the 13 years since Jackie has done deals and voted with the government and claimed fame for very single bit of grit and tar that ever went near a road in Kerry whether he had a ‘hand, act or part’ in it.

This week he was asked by public sector workers in Kerry about voting against further cuts to Public service pay cuts and jobs.

Jackie didn’t claim responsibility for past or future votes, He has only one vote, he has no hand, act or part in anything there it seems!

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