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Healy Rae Healy Rae is so good they voted twice
Maura Healy Rae romped to victory in the Killarney Municipal District local election.
She topped the poll for the second time and hovered up so many votes that she could have been elected twice.
The Kilgarvan woman earned 3,385 first preference votes on a quota of 1785. This was just 185 votes short of a double quota.
Her 2024 tally marks an increase of 286 first preference votes over her 2019 total of 3,099.
“It is all down to hard work, the election campaign may have been for the last few weeks but I have been canvassing since last September,” she said.
“I have visited every house in the area, if there was no one home we go back. We might celebrate tonight [Sunday] but it is back first thing Monday morning. They say one hundred thousand welcomes but I suppose I have to say 3,385 thank yous to all who gave me a number one and two all those who thought of me as second or third preference.”
The eldest daughter of Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae was co-opted onto Kerry County Council to fill the seat he vacated when Danny was elected to the Dáil in 2016.
She teaches English and history at St Brogan's in Bandon, County Cork and will now represent the Killarney municipal district for a third term.
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