The Healy-Raes: Blood, Sweat & Tears

The Healy-Raes: Blood, Sweat & Tears goes behind the most successful political dynasty in modern Ireland. The film follows two of Ireland’s highest vote getters - Michael and Danny Healy-Rae from their general election victory in 2024, through the voting pact that put them at the heart of Government, to Michael's appointment as a junior Minister in 2025 — and the resignation and bitter fallout that followed in 2026.

Filmmaker Jerry Kennelly was given unprecedented access. The camera follows the brothers into their natural habitat: the farms, the plant, the pubs and the parish halls where Kerry politics is actually done. We meet the lesser-known Healy-Raes already jockeying for position, and members of the hundreds-strong "Healy-Rae Army", the volunteers who power the machine, who explain their mission in their own words. The film reveals how local issues get solved, Kerry-style.