Speaking of yokels, the Healy-Rae dynasty – pictured right, and the pride of South Kerry don’t you know – deserve to be thanked for providing some comic relief in these dark Irish days. As retail sales fall for the 39th consecutive month it’s reassuring that gombeen politics and cute hoorism remain as dependable as ever.
The latest evidence for this comes from the unlikely source of a (surely terrible) Irish “reality” television show called Celebrities Gone Wild in which bleak Connemara subsituted for the jungles of Borneo as eight celebrities [sic] did whatever contestants on this kind of programme do to make the best of things.
As always a measure of low cunning is required to thrive in these circumstances so asking Michael Healy-Rae, son of Jackie then an independent TD representing South Kerry, to take part must surely have seemed an obviously good idea.
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