Michael Healy-Rae resigned from the position amid the acrimonious fallout from the fuel price protests<\/a> in early April.<\/p>\nIn a forthright interview on Radio Kerry, he said that it was not his brother’s place to tell the Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael parliamentary parties what to do.<\/p>\n
The day before a crucial confidence vote in the Government, Danny Healy-Rae said the parties should topple their leaders.<\/p>\n
“When those words were issued, that’s what cost Kerry a ministry in agriculture, that is an absolute fact. It is very disappointing.<\/p>\n
“It’s not the place of an Independent to go telling a parliamentary party what they are supposed to do.”<\/p>\n
Michael Healy-Rae spoke too about trying “everything in the world” to “put things right” in the hours leading up to his resignation but it proved futile as “the fire was started”.<\/p>\n
Michael Healy-Rae feels that ‘Team Healy-Rae’ has been damaged by what unfolded but he dismissed speculation that one of the country’s most well-known political brands could soon be consigned to history.<\/p>\n
However, he added that a lot of soul searching must be done and he will need people around him who he can rely on.<\/p>\n
Danny Healy-Rae told RT\u00c9 News that the Healy-Rae machine remains intact but he would not comment on his brother’s hard-hitting interview.<\/p>\n
“I am working as hard as ever, as are Johnny and Maura, and I’m sure Michael and Jackie are as well.<\/p>\n
“That’s the way it has to be,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae believes his brother Danny’s words cost him his job as a minister of state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-479175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}