Reaction to the assault on TD Michael Healy-Rae
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What happened to Independent TD Michael Healy‑Rae in the Dublin traffic assault?
The Claire Byrne Show on News Talk with Aviva Insurance. Well independent TD Michael Healy Ray has been discharged from hospital after he was assaulted while stopped in traffic in Dublin yesterday. It's understood that an individual started shouting at Michael Healy Ray before approaching the open window of his branded car and attacking him. Here's Danny Healy Ray addressing the incident in the doll yesterday.
I too am very disappointed with the news uh that um my brother was assaulted going going out the road in the car and um Uh it's it's it's not on. Uh someone just going he he was just doing his work or wherever he was going and stopped on the road and and someone hit him in the wind, it's not good enough. I hope he'll be alright. I hope his family uh uh will be alright and um it's i it's something that's hurting me. As much as anyone else. But um then things shouldn't happen to public representatives. We we we we get uh elected for to help the people and and and not to hurt them and if we can't do right by everyone, uh it's it's it's it's tough. Like we can't please everyone, we're doing our best and t tis unfair to hit a fella in the window without uh being able to defend himself.
So I I I I hope he'll be all right before morning and it'll be out again tomorrow.
How did Danny Healy‑Rae describe his brother’s condition and reaction after the attack?
That's Danny Healy Ray speaking last night in the doll and sitting beside him as he was saying that was Matty McGrath, Independent T D D and Matty's on the line. Good morning, Matty.
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Danny was clearly very upset last night when he uh said that and and you're all in shock, I take it.
We are. Look, uh first of all, I'm glad to report that I've spoken to Jackie anyway this morning. Michael's son and Michael is sh ready shaken, bruised, but recovering, and he's at home with his wife, Eileen, and his five children and his six grandchildren. And we must think of those uh today as well. Look, uh Jenny kind of came in on the debate last night, I think it was spontaneous from us all of us, it just had happened and w I hadn't focused Danny beforehand. about it. So he was obviously emotional. But look, Michael, it's the third time, it's a very worrying trend, it's the third time it has happened to Deputy Michael Hill Ray, uh, in two thousand eighteen, you know, he was threatened uh in in the street in Dublin as well that he would get a bullet through his head.
Thankfully uh the guard D were involved and there was a a man uh convicted of that or a person convicted of that. Again two years ago to today when the doll returned remember the incident on on outside the door and killed their street. And um there was somebody convicted for that also.
What details were given about Michael Healy‑Rae’s injuries and family’s wellbeing?
So in fairness and and there was people behind them and around them yesterday there's a good description of the individual. So hopefully um people have intermission we pass it on to the guard deal and he will be apprehended. Yeah, yeah.
Anything like that. No, thank
God. But j just Mike how it happened yesterday. He was on the phone actually on the speaker phone to his son Jackie. And Jackie was terrified uh from Kerry to hear this shouting thrust and then he thought it had abated and then a a severe blow came and d there was, you know, screaming. So it was a big worry. So no, nothing like that has happened to me.
He had stitches, did he, Matty?
He had up to five digits and he had uh obviously if you get a bad blow to your temple on the side of your head, it could be fatal. So this was pretty uh clearly uh unprovoked and I won't say meditated, but premeditated because he was just driving on the street so nobody would know where he was travelling. But it just i it's it's a new and uh new kind of a situation. We've seen what's happening in England.
Why is this the third violent incident targeting Michael Healy‑Rae and what were the previous attacks?
We don't want this creeping in to to the situation in Adam, so us as a political body here, and I know the Cam Coller contacted them also, uh, Deputy Murphy and others, the Tonicher and others contacted them last night. So we must stand together against this, especially for female politicians, but for all politicians and their families, and above all our staff.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened to Independent TD Michael Healy‑Rae in the Dublin traffic assault?
0:01–1:30
2
How did Danny Healy‑Rae describe his brother’s condition and reaction after the attack?
1:30–2:42
3
What details were given about Michael Healy‑Rae’s injuries and family’s wellbeing?
2:42–3:38
4
Why is this the third violent incident targeting Michael Healy‑Rae and what were the previous attacks?
3:38–4:51
5
What security concerns are being raised for TDs, their staff and families?
4:51–5:46
6
How is social media influencing public perception of the assault?
5:46–6:58
7
Will constituency offices and public‑door policies change after this incident?
6:58–7:58
8
What calls for tougher legal penalties against attacks on public servants were made?
7:58–9:22