{"id":484836,"date":"2026-06-05T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/484836\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:58:08","slug":"michael-healy-rae-ally-says-he-could-not-canvass-for-danny-after-brothers-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/484836\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Healy-Rae ally says he could not canvass for Danny after brothers\u2019 split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A close ally of Independent Kerry TD <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/the-healy-raes_topic-5245486.html\">Michael Healy-Rae<\/a> has said he could not, \u201cwith my hand on heart\u201d, canvass for second-preference votes for the former junior minister\u2019s brother, Danny.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Michael Healy-Rae said he had felt forced to resign from Government in April after being <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/arid-41855388.html\">\u201cpulled overboard\u201d<\/a> by his brother during a confidence debate arising from the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/fuel-prices_topic-5329865.html\">fuel protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Independent Tralee county councillor Sam Locke, a close ally of Michael Healy-Rae, told the  Irish Examiner he did not believe he could campaign for Danny Healy-Rae.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBecause of the manner in which he came out, without discussing it to ourselves or to his brother, I take a very dim view of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, Independent Listowel councillor Liam \u201cSpeedy\u201d Nolan, another ally of Michael Healy-Rae, said it was \u201ctoo soon\u201d to talk about the next election and that he hoped the brothers might reconcile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Michael Healy-Rae\u2019s son, Jackie Healy-Rae Jr, an Independent Kilgarvan councillor, said that although the family\u2019s influence in Government was diminished, he and his family would \u201ccontinue to do our best for the people of Kerry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Danny Healy-Rae\u2019s daughter, Maura Healy-Rae, also an Independent Kilgarvan councillor, said it was best not to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Michael and Danny Healy-Rae both declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A close ally of Independent Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae has said he could not, \u201cwith my hand on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[187201,24622,63615,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-484836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-kerry-news","tag-the-healy-raes","tag-fuel-prices","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484836","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=484836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}