{"id":527754,"date":"2026-07-01T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527754\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:57:12","slug":"danny-healy-rae-rejects-statement-by-brother-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527754\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Healy-Rae rejects statement by brother Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Danny Healy-Rae rejects a statement made by his brother Michael, saying that he cost Kerry a ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In April during the fuel protests, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae told Radio Kerry that Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael backbenchers should topple their leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, fellow Independent Kerry TD <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/podcasts\/kerry-today\/michael-healy-rae-team-healy-rae-has-been-damaged-june-2nd-2026-485944\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Healy-Rae<\/a> resigned as Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture to vote no confidence in the Government.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Michael Healy-Rae says\u00a0his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/michael-healy-rae-says-words-used-by-his-brother-danny-cost-kerry-a-government-ministry-485937\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brother&#8217;s comments pulled him overboard.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Healy-Rae says his ministry was dependent upon both brothers supporting the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>His brother, Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae says he stands by what he said in April and believes the Taoiseach and T\u00e1naiste were too slow to react to rising fuel prices:<\/p>\n<p>He says he\u2019s not to blame for Kerry no longer having a junior ministry in the Department of Agriculture:<\/p>\n<p>Questions have been asked if both Healy-Rae brothers are continuing to work together following the controversy<\/p>\n<p>When Danny Healy-Rae was asked about his political relationship with his brother Michael, he gave this response:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputy Danny Healy-Rae rejects a statement made by his brother Michael, saying that he cost Kerry a ministry.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23881,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-527754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-danny-healy-rae","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527754","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=527754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}