Ellen Coyne
speaker
622 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Ellen Coyne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We're being told now.
They would put on a show in the Dáil Chamber as well, where if Danny was in a row with someone, Michael would come storming in in his little hat and they would kind of be, you know, yelling indecipherable words at people across the chamber.
But obviously it came to a head when Michael felt, and we know this from the Radio Kerry interview, that he was forced to give up what had been his dream job.
He loved being a Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture because he got the very clear impression from the Department of Taoiseach that he had only gotten that job on the condition that the government could rely on two Healy Ray votes, Michael and Danny.
And Danny was very opposed to the position Micheál Martin had taken during the fuel protests.
So Michael felt that, and this is the understanding I had from the Department of Agriculture, the worst of all worlds for Michael Healy-Ray would have been to vote confidence in the government over the fuel protests and then be fired as a minister.
That would have been inconceivable to him and the way that he does politics and his political reputation.
Yeah, never mind the fact that even if he hadn't lost the job, it would be inconceivable to have one Healy-Ray down in Kerry in government feeling pressure and another Healy-Ray applying the...
same pressure from the opposition as well.
Well, I think my colleague Pat Lee, he used some colourful language to say that that was bull excrement, basically, you know, kind of invoking the spirit of his late father saying that, you know, resigning was the right thing to do, coming out in the images of him on the 6th one, kind of punching the sky victoriously to the cheers of the fuel protesters.
Absolutely.
I mean, by his own testament on Radio Kerry, he's a man who very much would wanted to be in government, would still be in government.
And some people in Fine Gael were actually reading the tea leaves of his rhetoric to say he was nearly priming himself to get into government again next time around.
So a lot of it will hinge on whether or not Kerry is one big five-seat constituency or two separate three-seat constituencies.
And the fact that Danny will be in his mid to late 70s by the time the next general election comes around.
He might not run again.
Now, maybe he might be motivated now to run again.
But obviously, you know, there is another factor here, which is Jackie Healy-Ray Jr., Michael Healy-Ray's son,
lost a job at the Department of Agriculture as well when his father resigned because he had been a special advisor.
I understand that that was a sore point.
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