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EXPRESSIONS OF SYMPATHY for Independent TD Jackie Healy Rae are to be held in the Dáil today.
The South Kerry TD passed away on the 5 December 2014, however no expressions of sympathy were heard in the Dáil at the time, according to his son, Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae.
Michael Healy-Rae, succeeded his father in the Dáil in 2011, and was later joined by his brother Danny Healy-Rae, who took a Dáil seat in 2016.
Though some time has passed since his death, his son Michael told TheJournal.ie that it is a “fitting time to remember” his late father following the recent local elections.
Had his father been alive today, it would have been a “special occasion” to see three of his grandchildren getting elected to Kerry County Council, with Michael stating “it all started with him”.
Michael’s son, Jackie Healy-Rae junior managed to secure a seat in this year’s local elections, as did his cousins Johnny and Maura Healy-Rae.
Maura stood in Killarney, Johnny stood in Kenmare and Jackie stood in Castleisland.
Jackie Healy-Rae was the founder of one of the country’s best-known political dynasties and served as an independent TD for Kerry South from 1997 to 2011.
Born just outside Kilgarvan on 9 March 1931, John Patrick Healy acquired the ‘Rae’ part of his surname from the local townland where he born.
He was educated locally before emigrating to the US in the 1950s. He returned later in the decade and played hurling and football with local teams.
In the 1960s, he established a plant hire business and also acquired a local pub in Kilgarvan which is still going today and is run by his son, Danny.
Fianna Fáil links
Healy-Rae’s political involvement dates back to the 1960s when he headed several by-election campaigns for Fianna Fáil, most notably the election of John O’Leary in 1966.
He was co-opted onto Kerry County Council as a Fianna Fáil member in 1973 and was the party’s director of elections in Kerry South for much of the 1970s and 1980s.
However, Healy-Rae quit Fianna Fáil in controversial circumstances prior to the 1997 general election when the party failed to nominate him as its candidate in Kerry South.
Though some five years has passed since his death, it is common practice for members of Dáil Eireann to pay tribute to former TDs that have died.
Last week, expressions of sympathies were heard for Fine Gael’s Richie Ryan and John Browne. The chief whip’s office said the Independent group recently asked for time to be set aside to pay tribute to Jackie Healy-Rae, and that was granted for this week’s schedule.
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Still no word from Sipo on where PLC, Iona, Lolek LTD or any other prolife group get their money
@Smooth Shriller: is there an investigation ongoing or is this just a childish comment?
@lavbeer: wouldn’t it be better if they just said how they are funded? I mean RTE get them onto every show for balance every time they have someone rational on, surely we should know who is trying to influence national policy, no?
@Martin Byrne: I don’t really care Martin to be honest. Was just asking if smooth knew of an investigation or it was a school yard comment. I don’t listen to any of the extreme groups personally
@Smooth Shriller: Big difference.
Prolife groups exist and work to SAVE human lives and babies from being aborted to death in their mothers womb, and protect their mothers from the psychological damage abortion inflicts, — prolife campaigns should be supported materially, by all good people, who value human life and rights..
Pro abortion propaganda pushers like O’Gormans Amnesty and the aborted babies boby part seller Planned Parenthood Irish affiliate, IFPA, promote and push for more abortion – and their evil campaign SHOULD be exposed, defunded, and shunned.
@Mick Rick Jones: LIAR.
@Mick Rick Jones: oh, and amnesty would be following the exact same policies whether O Gorman was at the helm or not, so why hate on him personally?
Guess you are ignoring that 98% of abortions in the UK take place because continuing the pregnancy poses a greater risk to the woman’s health than were she to abort.
You’ll call that “lifestyle reasons” in an attempt to justify your prejudice against women, when in reality, all the woman is doing is engaging in self preservation – but she doesn’t matter, right?
The pro life side should be honest about their funding.. But they refuse to be.. Been asking Cora Sherlock to share the pro life campaigns books daily since last august when she started crowing about Soros like you are.. Still waiting to see their books.. What’s their funding eh??
A good decision. And let us not forget that Youth Defence has a dedicated US based fundraising arm: http://geoffsshorts.blogspot.ie/2012/09/youth-defence-money-shot.html
@Geoff Lillis: Let us also not forget that Youth Defence and the Life Institute both have the same address and are basically the same group, they pretend there’s more than one of them to inflate their numbers.
http://www.youthdefence.ie/contact-us/
http://www.thelifeinstitute.net/about-us/contact-us/
@Geoff Lillis: A good decision? It’s not like they had much choice!
@Geoff Lillis: agreed. The anti-choice, keep-women-down, god-in-your-knickers brigade will have to use a different tactic now. They were saying that all campaigners for women’s rights were being paid directly by Soros. 23k is nothing. I wonder what youth defence and Life House get from their US freaky counterparts?
@Emeralds: I think they did have a choice. Choice is good!
@Geoff Lillis: Great. More luck to YD, and all prolifers.
YD need every penny, to save babies lives from abortion, and from the abortion ghouls like Soros, PP, and their well funded Irish dummy groups, who campaign for increased abortion of babies under Irish law, and who have the corrupt, pro abortion Irish media, and cowardly politicians, beaten into complicit silence
So George Soros funded them, the same billionaire who funded BLM and many radical left wing groups. Colour me surprised.
@Val: being open and transparent with their funding how very radical of them, same can’t be said for most Pro-life groups. I think you’ll find abortion is more than a left vs right issue as well but I guess your brain needs to slap labels on things to cope with its diminished capacity.
OMG!!!!
@Dave O Keeffe: eh no Dave, they weren’t being open and transparent, they were called out on it and on advice from SIPO returned the money. Massive difference.
@Sean @114: hard to get called out on something you don’t tell anyone about isn’t it?
@Dave O Keeffe: Is t?
@Sean @114: obviously it is. If nobody knows then nobody can advise you to give it back.
@Dave O Keeffe: They weren’t open and transparent, they were caught
@Val: name me 1 radical left wing group.
Antifa?
@Val: 23k? That’s not funding :-) you’d hardly get a ‘Hello Divorce, Goodbye Daddy’ poster campaign funded for that.
@Dave O Keeffe: They were neither open nor transparent with their funding. They were told by a senior SIPO officer that they could show SIPO their accounts, after refusing to and claiming the regulations were ‘draconian’, or the Gardai would be informed. Which is rather an important point which this article omits.
@Gary Kavanagh: it might be an important point but your wording has probably not done it justice
@Dave O Keeffe: I think Dave, if the wording confused you, that might be more on you than on me. It remains an important point, and one you were entirely wrong about.
@Gary Kavanagh: why lie Gary?
ARC have always been compliant with SIPO.. We aren’t talking about youth defence, life institute, family and life or the pro life campaign here.. ARC have never claimed that they were a charity or that they don’t engage in politics to avoid the SIPO responsibility.. That’s pro life groups..
You can see all of this for yourself over on SIPOs website. If you keep lying it just makes you look bad..
@Dave O Keeffe: they returned the money, thru’ gritted teeth, ONLY when its illegality was pointed out to them by SIPO, and the Garda were becoming involved.
i.e. when they were caught campaigning for abortion with their paw in the SOROS billions.
Fund prolife groups who defend human babies lives and rights against the SOROS abortion pushers.
Defund O’Gormans Amnesty, IFPA or other abortion pushers.
Why, and for how much, are tax payers forced to support abortion pushers ?
Why didn’t our Sham Citizens Assembly farce, or our media, expose the funding of pro abortion groups?
If prolife groups were involved, theyed be apoplectic jumping up and down about it.
Defend life. Support prolife groups, against Soros, Chuck Feeney an dtheir Irish pro abortion stooges.
@Mick Rick Jones: lying again, why do that? Is easily verified..
They only returned the cash under threat of a Garda referral.
Amnesty and IFPA, who each received €150k for the same purpose should also be forced to give that money back.
@Shane P. Slayer: actually they shouldn’t. amnesty and the ifpa are both recognised charities with registered charity numbers so they don’t have any political affiliation. Therefore they can take a donation from whoever they wish. The same goes for religious organisations. It’s the reason why sipo can’t persue the Iona Institute, youth defence etc. because they operate under the guise of a ‘religious organisation’.
@Shane P. Slayer: why, Shane?
@PJ Maguire Kavanagh: Amnesty and IFPA are both engaged in a political campaign to destroy the 8th Amendments protection of unborn children from abortion.
They are Soros “collective” , as his OS group stated, lavishly funded as a “collective campaign” strategy to remove the 8th, and introduce abortion here.
IFPA is the Irish affiliate of giant abortion business, Planned Parenthood, who have been caught red-handed selling aborted baby body parts for profit. The Soros funded IFPA never condemned, and do condone, by their deafening silence, their parent body PPs, disgusting aborted baby body parts sell-for-profit scandalous abuse of unborn, or nearly born , human babies.
Our pro abortion NUJ media buried the embarrassing PP baby bodies for sale story, just like they are now, in the main, studiously ignoring the SOROS pro abortion group campaign funding. Hypocrites.
All pro abortion campaigners should be defunded.
Support all prolife pro 8th groups with your money, time, votes and voice against SOROS and their local lackeys.
Does SIPO REALLY expect people to believe O’Gormans pro abortion Amnesty, and the IFPA pro aborts got the SOROS huge funding for any other reason but for a campaign to attack the 8ths protection ?
Support prolife groups against these evil people.
Returned “on advice” from Sipo.
No. Returned after SIPO repeatedly threatened to report them to the Gardai.
God you guys will do anything to spin a story for the choicers.
@John McGuirk: I like the term, ‘choicer’ thanks! What does that make the opposing side?
@John McGuirk: any word on when we will see the funding sources for any of the pro life campaigns?
I’d really like to know which organisations are benefitting from the donations sought at lifehouseireland.org and cherishlifeireland.org.. As well as Joseph Scheidler and Tom Monaghans contributions..
@John McGuirk: yes, they will, won’t they ? Our pro abortion media spinners at work.
Defund pro abortion Amnesty and IFPA now. Why are Irish taxpayers supporting them ?
Scandalous.
@Martin Byrne: aborted babies don’t get any “choice”. They die by abortion.
@Mick Rick Jones: a foetus can’t make a decision, given that much like yourself pet, they don’t have fully formed brains.
But of course, you don’t care about women.. Typical foetus worshipping misogynist..
@Shanti: actually, the abortionist frequently sticks his knife thru the babys brain in the mothers womb… fully formed or not… the baby dies in EVERY single abortion.
This is what you and the anti 8th abortion on demand SOROS funded bandwagon wants in Ireland, as happens elsewhere.
Al least 50% of babies who die in this way, are female … and COULD have been born loved, reared into beautiful women–
but you and the pro abortion (anti 8th) on demand propagandist mob, convinced people that aborting them to death was OK, cool, chic even “a choice” (life or death).
ProLifers care enough about women NOT to want to see them aborted to death, which you do.
Defund Amnesty, IFPA and other abortion – pushers.
The anti choice groups really do love going on the EWTN channel and begging the Americans for their $$$$$ …
It’s a “pity” that they deleted their video of them actually doing this ..
Below is one group that a moody,wannabe male gynecologist & a spreader of deeply flawed studies asked American people to donate to :
@Francis Mc Carthy: don’t forget lifehouseireland.org also American tax free donations going towards the fight to “keep Ireland pro life”, who’s benefitting from that?
Or indeed Joseph Scheidler or Tom Monaghans donations…
@Francis Mc Carthy: its great that good people give their money to prolife groups to fight baby killing pro abortion campaigners like O’Gormans Amnesty and IFPA, affiliated as they are to Planned Parenthoods aborted body parts sellers.
No problem there. People should donate as often and as much as then can afford, to prolife groups, to oppose local pro abortion pushers and lackeys, fronting for Soros and his ilk.
Pro abortion anti 8th abortion pushers (Amnesty, IFPA) should be completely defunded before their ideolgy of death kills even more by abortion.
Give to prolife groups who defend babies from being aborted to death (and possibly, their parts sold).
Irish pro abort media largely buries both 1) PP selling aborted body parts and 2) IFPA link to Planned Parenthood, the aborted baby body part sellers.
Recognize abortion pushers for what they are, and defund their evil.
@Shanti: whos benefiting ? Babies who are born rather than aborted, thats who — coz the 8th, which Soros and his tame Irish pro abortion lackeys want destroyed, protects the unborn from being aborted to death.
@Francis Mc Carthy: Don’t worry, good people can defend babies and Ireland against the viciously anti 8th abortion on demand regime, which Soros and his paid Irish stooges desire,
…by donating directly, little or big, whatever they can, to Irish prolife groups who oppose the abortion of human babies.
@Mick Rick Jones: that’s the thing though.. It’s not Irish people who are funding pro life. It’s Americans.
Both those charities are AMERICAN. same way Joseph Scheidler and Tom Monaghan, both big funders of the Irish pro lies lobby are AMERICAN..
Not Irish. This is why the pro liars never comply with SIPO.
At least ARC were happy to be transparent and honest.. You’ll never get that from pro lies.
Fair play.
George Soros loves women … his open society donated 246 million dollars between 2010 and 2014 to over a 100 of the 500 groups who organised the womens march in January of this year, incidentally the day after Trump was elected.
Women were encouraged to skip work, wear red and forego shopping…for some reason.
Pro life womens groups were removed from the program. These were non women.
George Soros is the champion of women. He wants women to feel in control of their destinies. Women should have abortions at will if they want to. One day of the year too, it is good to wear red and cut out shopping apparently.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/7/george-soros-gave-246-million-partners-womens-marc/
@raymond grehan: so he gave 100 groups money 3 years ago and now anything they do is down to him. I once gave money to solace, is that on me now too?
@raymond grehan: abortion kills female babies — who would grow into beautiful women, if Soros, Amnesty, IFPA and the pro aborts didn’t encourage other women to kill them off by abortion.
PROLIFE WOMEN banned from that MARCH? Tells its own story about “tolerance” liberal” claptrap on abortion.
@Mick Rick Jones: they were banned from the March for being misogynists.. Like you. You don’t care about female babies.. You just care about controlling women and forcing childbirth upon them..
Thats not care. That’s hatred.
@Shanti: Rubbish.
They were banned cuz they opposed abortion of babies, male or female, to death, and the fascist pro aborts running this March couldn’t have, or admit, that.
So much for anti 8th, pro aborts much trumpeting waffle about “choices”, “inclusiveness”, and other utter meaningless double talk.
Anti 8th pro aborts are full of this rubbish about “choices” etc, — the reality is babies get NO choice about when aborted to death.
Anti 8th pro aborts are riddled with this hypocrisy, hiding their real abortion on demand agenda.
@Mick Rick Jones: whereas your hypocrisy leads to the death of actual, living, breathing women..
The only lying fascist here is you, the mysogynist who wants ultimate control of women’s bodies.
George Soros made his money from stealing all the valuables belonging to Jewish people and others in NAZI and corporations slave labour death camps in WW2…..I’m sure he is a lovely chap.
@Dick Durkin: you know he was born in 1931 right? 14 at the end of the war
@Dave O Keeffe: facts don’t matter to them Dave. You know that.
@Dick Durkin:
interesting comparison you inspire, between the bloody, industrial – scale, ruthless, killing for profit of the UK (and other) abortion mills, which our looney left wants for Ireland — and the Nazis concentration camp killing and robbery/exploitation machine.
Innocents die in both.
@Rob Cahill: facts ?
try these.
aborted babies hearts beat, their blood bleeds, they have toes, eyes and thumbs, when aborted to death, for the trash can,…
… if PP DOESN’T SELL their aborted body parts.
And pro aborts, like you think, and preach, their death by abortion. You tell people that all of that abortion slaughter….is OK ?
@Mick Rick Jones: I don’t like to try argue facts with people who clearly have no time for them but you do realise those PP videos were made and heavily edited by 2 prolife nutjobs who are now being charged for it and heading to prison for a long time right?? Also late term abortions like you are describing are very rare and almost always because the fetus is not viable or the mothers life is threatened. The average termination is no more graphic than a heavy period. But you know that already. If it was so shocking you would use that as an example but like everything prolife you need to lie and exaggerate. It’s why no one with any sense has any time for your pathetic views.
@Rob Cahill: also why he need come to the article weeks after its published, guess he expects to never be challenged.. Otherwise he would not trade exclusively in lies..
@Shanti: Probably spent all that time coming up with an argument and that’s all he could come up with. Sad really.
I wonder if the Iona institute will send their American funding back.
@Seán J. Troy: Why would they get anything?
@Alois Irlmaier: They’re not SIPO compliant.. Who funds them?
@Seán J. Troy: lets hope not, if they get any.
SOROS and his tame pro abortion, anti 8th Irish lapdogs, and media cheerleaders, would love to cripple prolife groups who defend unborn lives from abortion, financially.
You would too.
@Shanti: Probably Soros as well lol.
http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/2763-dcleaks-bombshell-the-soros-francis-connection
Caught with their pants down.
@Tommy Bannon: How come the normally very loquacious Colm O’Gorman from Amnesty, isn’t on every sympathetic media platform which his pro abortion media mates normallyafford him, telling us how the Soros anti 8th, pro abortion campaign money, ended up in anti 8th pro abortion Amnestys campaign chest ?
He didn’t cover that point in his verbose Citizens Assembly propaganda piece. Strange.
@lavbeer: that there is no SIPO probe of Iona’s funding and activities speaks volumes about SIPO’s purported neutrality and Iona’s power and influence in the state.
@Shane OCurry: Soros, Amnesty, IFPA promote aborting babies to death. They want abortion on demand of babies to death here in Ireland.
Iona, Youth Defence defend babies from being aborted to death, and so SHOULD be well funded and supported by all of us, any way you can, little or big, all helps.
Thats the CRUCIAL difference.
The SOROS billions shows the power and scale of those attacking the 8th, and whose backing their local pro abortion anti 8th, mouthpieces.
@Mick Rick Jones: tell us oh wise one..
Can a 13 week foetus live outside of the womb?
If not, then it’s not actually living yet. So death isn’t quite the same thing.. But hey, why let a biological fact get in the way of your misogynist rants eh?
@Shanti: So, lets kill it, eh ? yeh, murderous pro abortion rubbish.
heres the main, biological fact, O foolish one, — abortions kill babies in their mothers womb stone dead , every time, before and beyond 13 weeks, – with a beating heart, fingers and toes, full genetic genome, ending a human life. Their age don’t matter, when you are dead.
If living unaided outside the womb was the criterion for being allowed to live, unborn babies could be aborted up til 9 months (which u advocate) and all the premature babies could have their respirators switched off ? Downs babies to be killed as well ?
But then, pro abortion fools like you, favour abortion of humans til birth, don’t you ?
In fact, you encourage it. O idiotic one, no matter what age the unborn baby.
Try studying your own Ultrasound images of babies in their mothers womb.. In your case, tho’, probably “biologically” pointless.
@Shanti: thats a child LIVING, developing, and growing in his/her mothers womb — as you once were.
They have the same, full genetic make up from their conception to life after birth, and to death.
Abortion, which you advocate, kills these small, developing babies.
Should we kill all the preterm babies, living outside the womb, on life support ? — because they are born early, cost money, and are inconvenient ?
Youd be happy just to abort them to death — as “a choice”.
@Mick Rick Jones: wow, do you get tired carrying around straw men like that?
A foetus becomes viable outside of the womb around the third trimester. Prior to that it has fingers, toes and no working brain. In other words, it’s not alive.
And lol, you realise that there are types of cancer with individual DNA that grow inside the womb, right?
They were told by a senior SIPO officer that they could show SIPO their accounts, after refusing to and claiming the regulations were ‘draconian’, or the Gardai would be informed. Rather an important point which this article omits.
@Gary Kavanagh: again, I’m sure there’s a point in there but just like the last time you posted the exact same muddled comment, it’s meaning is lost in the wording.
@Gary Kavanagh: yes, but unsurprising omission given the Irish media’ pro abortion bias.
The NUJ supports abortion , and marches with its banner at “pro choice ” i.e. pro abortion events.
ARC only returned their pro abortion loot, when threatened with Garda action. Why are pro abort Amnesty and IFPA not returning their SOROS anti 8th campaign war fund ? Whats SIPO and Frances Fitzgerald doing about these Soros funds ?
@Mick Rick Jones: you mean what are they doing about groups seeking grants from philanthropic organisations?
Thats what SIPO are for. And as a result of SIPOs decision, this funding was returned to source.
When will the pro lies side comply with SIPO?
@Shanti: great to see pro abortion groups being defunded, even if they had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the Gardai door by SIPO. When are the other pro aborts Amnesty and IFPA going to come clean ?
Giving money to pro aborts is like funding the Nazis and calling it “a patriotic choice”.
Pushing abortion is NOT some noble cause, it’s death dealing propaganda whichs ends in dead, aborted babies. Defund it, and them , now
Great too that people give money to courageous prolife groups who oppose babies being aborted to death, and expose the pro abortion, anti 8th liars as the abortion pushers which they are, and thats why pro aborts like SOROS, GATES, FEENEY foundations fund them.
Oppose abortion ? Then support prolife groups with your money, time, voice and votes.
Vote pro abortion politicians out of office. Fund prolife groups any way u can.
@Mick Rick Jones:
Whereas the Irish pro lies lobby has ties to actual neo nazi groups. Won’t even comply with SIPO claiming that they aren’t lobbies, allegedly they’re charities (oh look, fraud too).
Oppose abortion, then don’t bloody well have one, but don’t place other women’s health and lives at risk for your twisted morals.
@Each Way Thief: never trust a doctor that calls a foetus a child. Also he knows he can quit right? Or is somebody forcing him to do work that he’s against?
“The Open Societies Foundations is funded by US billionaire George Soros – a major backer of liberal causes around the world” and they aren’t liberal but self serving. Anyone asked Soros what he did during WW2???
@Alois Irlmaier: he was 14 when the war ended
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUdosc33eSE
“George Soros: ‘I Am A God, I Created Everything, I Control America And Hillary Clinton’”
@Dave O Keeffe: Yes…
@Alois Irlmaier: so what are you saying the child did during WWII?
@Dave O Keeffe: Well at least he got to be born, his abortion victims won’t.
@Mick Rick Jones: oh mercy save us all from the meaningless hyperbole of the deluded pro liars…
@Shanti: actually, the people who NEED to be saved are the unborn children which you advocate, can be NOW killed off “pro choice” like, in every abortion…
Try saving them first.
@Mick Rick Jones: what, at the risk of the health or life of the woman carrying it?
Get out of here with that thinly veiled misogyny.
The Journal left out the bit where the money was returned last November.
I wish The Irish Catholic was as diligent in finding out how much money the Bon Secours raised from selling babies.
@DaisyChainsaw: think about todays 1000s of babies being aborted to death now in 2017, ENCOURAGED by SOROS and his tame Irish lackeys and media mouthpieces, an outcome they NOW campaign for, by attacking the 8th using Soros money.
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