That is what is wrong with the Dail and Ireland. This us V them attitude. The Dail should not be concerned with local matters but what is good for the country as a whole. If done right the health care, education, housing, social protection etc would be the same no matter where you live in Ireland but this attitude and the corruption of both the Dail and the civil service prevents this from happening

Cathal, interesting post and I agree with some of it. But in what way is the Irish civil service corrupt ? Have you been asked to pay a bribe recently or been awarded a contract dubiously?

Brendan the people of kerry see fit to have him elected not his family!

Dublin West voted back in iPhone Joan, the Green Party are on the way back and it seems the Country has forgotten what FF done..

Or maybe the country much like the banking enquiry have discovered the recession wasn’t actually the sole blame of the last government and overspending was never at any point flagged by the opposition either. The election is over, you can drop the spin.

Dell. 8363 people voted for Noonan,your opinion of him dosent tally with 8363 others

Cosmo,iPhone Joan as you call her got her nick name from water protesters ,that shows you that there is more important things out there than water protests !

…and Dublin West votes in iJoan. ? That makes the Kerry people geniuses. ..

Yes Philip, less than half the amount of people that voted for one of the healy raes.

David brent .The office

that was a real primary school comeback to ron in fairness damien try a bit harder kid.

Ron Koeman
You look like a barrel of laughs, – if your face was upside-down, you’d have a permanent smile…

I think he have some Kerry saps. The county deserves all it gets with those half wits. Scarlet for you, the people of Kerry giving Kerry a bad name.

I’ve let myself go a bit?

As a Brit I find this VERY Irish

As a Brit who lives in kerry I voted for neither but I fully understand that a lot of people did. Better you elect a devout local than some major party ass wipe that is only out for themselves, take note Arthur Spring.

Yep, can’t wait til they bring back the drink driving.

Did you know that there was not actually two Banjos as one was a Guitar. True story.

Parish pump pot hole fillers.

Something very wrong with you if these guys getting elected makes your skin crawl. When down in Tipperary they elected criminal and money grabbing traitors.

Shane we’ll deliverance

Geraldine When people are forgotten about on a national level, they will look to the people who care for them on a local level. Irish politicians for many years have ignored the hardships of the people who elected them

He fixshed the roads!

Dave I’ll take that one on the chin. I am frustrated with many of the results today

Say what you like about them, but are very dedicated to their constituents. Their strategy worked a treat. A resounding success. Yet the leader of our country made a balls of his own partys campaign. We might be as well off with the Healy Raes running the country.. How sad is that

And u can drink as much booze as u want and drive…..if u are a lonely farmer.

Have you been to Darndale recently. I’m not interested in idiots who like to divide poor people. Dublin has been let don’t by this nonsense as much as anywhere. Get your head out if your a$$

You get your head out of your arse Ron this is the way Irish politics is at the moment. The election s are set up so you vote for whoever will get things done for you where you live. Don’t hate the player hate the game. You sound like a school kid the way your going on on this article.

ah deluded silly rochelle with her bitter anti dublin nonsense grow up ffs .

Olympics on the way to Kerry apparently

Stephen do you think FG, labour and FF have been putting the nation first, honestly?

Of course not. And the election of these two changes nothing. Gombeen politics is here to stay.

Kerry’s interests obviously.

They didn’t vote for their interest. The roads get fix but parish pump politics has contributed to the quagmire the country is in.

I would have thought you would be happy lone hurler. These two will never vote for a referendum to repeal the 8th and they are into their catholicism. They actually could be you.

Kerry has no youth left, we are all scattered across the globe, when you have an older generation voting, this is what happens. Sat down with friends last night and we were shocked and embarrassed that these two Tds were elected. People of Kerry what were ye thinking.

…that’s all very well- but what was the turnout in Kerry ? And in your age group? If people don’t get and vote they can’t be whinging about the result…

You can blame all of the other parties (especially Labour and Fine Gael) for landing the Kerry voters with the most ineffectual candidates in the country. Kerry didn’t even recover during the boom years. Tralee’s got several empty factories, that have been empty for years, and Listowel hasn’t even got any factories. During the Celtic Tiger years, every town in Ireland seemed to get a new hotel, even if one wasn’t needed, but not Listowel, a town that actually needed one. Jimmy Deenihan’s poster slogan was “keep your TD local”, and the fact that he’s on a knife-edge on the candidate list proves that his being local doesn’t make much difference to the voters.

John, go to the local clubs they can’t put teams together, go to the pubs on a weekend night, there is a whole generation gap in Kerry. As for whinging and not voting, I am in Australia along with a massive percentage of people my age from Kerry, we don’t have a vote, the min I turned 18, registered and vote in every election, people died for me vote .

Are you seriously serious, Julie? You sit there in Australia, and you condemn Kerry residents for voting for tds who will look after them. You are a prime example of why we shouldn’t give the vote to emigrants. You couldn’t care less about the people you left behind.

Julie __ I don’t think it was mostly the old duffers who voted for the Healy-Raes, as I think many first-time voters, and other 20 somethings voted for them, which is the impression that I get in North Kerry. I didn’t vote for them by the way :p

Moderate you are a prime example of all that is wrong with politics in Ireland. I am seriously serious, I do sit here in Australia, which has nothing to do with anything, I am entitled to my opinion I am an Irish citizen on temp visa, I have every right to vote, I will be back in 2017. As for MHR, yes I think it was a wasted vote when it comes to our country as a whole.

You sit there in ireland….voting fools in and whinging for the next 5 years…so she shouldnt care about leavin people like u behind

That is where we differ on our caring, I care about citizens everywhere, in Oz Canada, the families in hotels, kids going hungry, people worried can they keep their homes, not about the roads or any of that. To me MHR is a vote for austerity, check out his voting record in the dail. (Healy-Rae missed two-thirds of votes in his first Dáil term, despite being signed in for his expenses on each day a vote was taken) when he was actually there

Ted, I think it is how I am trying to justify such a result from Kerry. I honestly cannot understand the reasoning. Oh but look forget about future of Ireland he will look after us here in Kerry. Like so small minded.

Julie, there’s a very simple way of ensuring that people like the Healy Rae brothers don’t get elected on the parish pump ticket – implement policies that ensure people in Kerry (and other areas outside the Dublin commuter belt) have economic opportunites (and don’t end up in places like Australia); that they have services which most Dubliners take for granted such as roads, a post office, garda station, schools, reasonable access to medical facilities etc. The Fine Gael backroom boys discovered that talk of a recovery across large parts of Ireland was a myth. That’s why the wheels came off the FG wagon in these areas. It also goes some way to explaining why Kerry returned two Healy Rae’s.

Julie, I’m pretty sure that Kerry people are interested in the future of Ireland as a whole, Kerry people just want their share of that future. Caring for the future of Ireland is caring for every county, not just the densely populated areas of Dublin, Cork and other large cities.

You can’t abuse people by calling them thick, yet you hide behind a fake profile. Be a man and stop hiding who you are…… Actually you remind me of a spineless politician….

Ron.. The big guns in Dublin are closing down Garda Stations and saved fcuk all in the process. Post offices too. Broadband is a disaster. So many want to leave the small villages cos they are empty and live in Dublin where all the facilities are yet there arent enough houses. I dont agree with parish pump politics and the national interests should be served first but it shouldnt be at the expense of the rural towns and villages.

The big guns in Dublin are from the country side and couldn’t care less about the dubs.

Alan bullshatter, who closed the Garda Stations is hardly from the countryside.

I agree, though the solution is more representative politics and investment not for people from places like Kerry to disregard local politics and elect someone who’ll sit quietly for 5 years toeing the Dublin centric party line.
I mean even on a very basic level of the 20 FG/LAB politicians involved at some point in a ministerial position throughout the last government 11 of them were from a Dublin constituency. People need to feel the benefit of what national politics can achieve for their area over local before this will change, right now that’s a hard sell.