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Jackie Healy-Rae (John Patrick Healy) was born on 9 March, 1931 in Kilgarvan, County Kerry, Ireland, is an Irish politician (1931–2014). Discover Jackie Healy-Rae's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

Popular As John Patrick Healy
Occupation N/A
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 9 March 1931
Birthday 9 March
Birthplace Kilgarvan, County Kerry, Ireland
Date of death 5 December, 2014
Died Place Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland
Nationality Ireland

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His wife is Julie Healy-Rae (m. 1953; d. 2014)

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Children 6, including Danny and Michael

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1931

John Patrick Healy (9 March 1931 – 5 December 2014), known as Jackie Healy-Rae, was an Irish Independent politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry South constituency from 1997 to 2011.

Healy-Rae was the first of six children born to Daniel and Mary Healy, and grew up on his family's farm at the foot of Mangerton Mountain, near Kilgarvan in County Kerry.

The Rae part of his surname came from the name of the Healys' farm, Reacashlagh.

He was educated at the local National School in Kilgarvan.

1953

He emigrated to the United States in 1953 but soon returned to Ireland.

1956

He played for the local hurling and Gaelic football teams in Kilgarvan, where he won two senior county hurling titles with the club in 1956 and 1958.

Healy-Rae was also a saxophone player with the Kilgarvan Dance Band.

1960

By the 1960s, he was well established in the plant hire business in south Kerry.

Healy-Rae first became involved in politics in the 1960s.

1966

He headed several Fianna Fáil by-election campaigns, most notably the election of John O'Leary to the Dáil in 1966.

O'Leary retained the seat for thirty-one years.

Healy-Rae later lent his services to several other Fianna Fáil election campaigns in County Limerick, County Cork and County Galway.

1969

In 1969, he became a publican when he purchased an old premises that had been closed for some time in Kilgarvan.

The family pub is now run by his son, Danny.

1970

During the 1970s and 1980s, Healy-Rae served three times as Fianna Fáil's director of elections in Kerry South.

In this capacity he was given the task of delivering two of the three seats for the Fianna Fáil Party.

1973

In 1973, Healy-Rae was first co-opted to Kerry County Council as a Fianna Fáil member, following the death of sitting Kerry County Councillor Michael Doherty.

1974

He was elected to the council in his own right in 1974 and re-elected in every subsequent election.

1977

Healy-Rae was married to Julie Healy, but the couple separated in 1977.

Two sons, Danny and Michael were members of Kerry County Council for the Killarney and Killorglin local electoral areas respectively before becoming TDs.

His eldest daughter Joan (Mrs. Larkin) teaches in a Catholic School in New York.

His other daughter, Rosemary, is a barrister-at-law.

1997

Healy-Rae broke from Fianna Fáil in controversial circumstances prior to the 1997 general election.

When the party refused to nominate him as a candidate in Kerry South, he decided to run as an Independent candidate.

This move surprised the party, with many commentators giving him little chance of getting elected.

However, Healy-Rae took a seat and denied Fianna Fáil the chance of taking a second seat in the constituency.

After the election, the Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats prospective government was still short of an overall majority.

Healy-Rae was one of four Independent TDs (the others were Harry Blaney, Tom Gildea and Mildred Fox) who supported the government throughout its five-year term and rejected the opposition Fine Gael.

In return for this support he secured funding for projects in his constituency and chairmanship of the Environment committee.

His policy approach could be defined as populist, primarily driven by his rural background and constituency, and he frequently demanded upgrades to public services such as schools and roads in his constituency as the price of his support for the government.

2002

Healy-Rae contested the 2002 general election and although his seat looked in doubt at some stages of the campaign and he received only the fourth-highest number of first-preference votes, he was narrowly re-elected, winning the third seat.

He sat through fewer than half the meetings of an Oireachtas committee tasked with dealing with social welfare he received €20,000 a year to chair.

He got up and left during 25pc of the meetings of the committee leaving the vice-chairman, Charlie O'Connor, to oversee the meetings and absented himself entirely from a further 25pc of meetings, despite a convention that chairmen appointed by the government should fully chair all meetings.

2003

Healy-Rae served on the council for 30 years, until he had to resign his seat because of the abolition of the dual mandate in 2003.

2007

She was appointed to a paid position on the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal in 2007.

He was again re-elected to the Dáil at the 2007 general election and signed a confidence and supply deal with Fianna Fáil.

Promising to support the government in return for investment in the Kerry South constituency.

The details of this deal were not made public.

2010

She was re-appointed, for three further years, by Justice Minister Dermot Ahern on 11 November 2010.

A son, Denis, runs his own business, and another son, John Healy (he does not use Rae), is a full-time official with and former President of the Garda Representative Association.