Death Notices

[whitey]

I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, point is that democracy by it's very nature rewards such behaviour.

Local representatives that deliver for their voters will get voted back in. Out of interest, how would you have expected him to behave?

There's a tendency on here to view this is as a particularly Irish trait, when it actually happens in all democracies. Calling out Healy-Rae as representative of ills of Irish politics is wrong in my view. Correct me if I'm wrong but he wasn't guilty of mass corruption like some of those others you've rightly mentioned.

Clientelism is about local bigwigs delivering citizens what is theirs anyway.
And taking a cut elsewhere. I always noticed the roads driving into Kilgarvan.

And you'll see the same thing the world over. Politics (at it's base level) works on patronage.

Pee Flynn didn't actually build the roads. Unlike.......

Pee was too busy helping his wife save the hay

[supersub]

Barry Andrews - popular local referee in Down. RIP

[5 Sams]

Barry Andrews - popular local referee in Down. RIP

RIP Barry. He wasn't a bad oul skin. Terrible tragedy for the family.

[Milltown Row2]

Castro?

[orangeman]

Castro?

Dead as good while supposedly.

[Harold Disgracey]

Fidel Castro dead. Fidel Castro Odinga that is.
http://m.aljazeera.com/story/201514125745843583

[T Fearon]

Anne Kirkbride aka Deirdre Barlow

[theticklemister]

Anne Kirkbride aka Deirdre Barlow

[AZOffaly]

Anne Kirkbride aka Deirdre Barlow

Only 60. It'd have pegged her for a lot older. RIP

[theticklemister]

Anne Kirkbride aka Deirdre Barlow

Only 60. It'd have pegged her for a lot older. RIP

Ken was holding her back

[seafoid]

Anne Kirkbride aka Deirdre Barlow

Only 60. It'd have pegged her for a lot older. RIP

Smoker. Very sad.

[5 Sams]

Anne Kirkbride aka Deirdre Barlow

Only 60. It'd have pegged her for a lot older. RIP

Glad you typed the last 5 words.

[T Fearon]

Didn't she have relatives from Galway?

[Agent Orange]

Anne Kirkbride aka Deirdre Barlow

My money is on Tracy having something to do with it.

[Milltown Row2]

Anne Kirkbride aka Deirdre Barlow

Only 60. It'd have pegged her for a lot older. RIP

Glad you typed the last 5 words.

Didn't she have throat cancer a while back? Work with a girl who had same cancer.... Still smokes