Retirement
On 26 June 2008 Healy-Rae announced that he intended to retire at the next general election. His son Michael Healy-Rae was selected as a candidate by the Healy-Rae organisation on 28 October 2010, and was elected at the 2011 general election.
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Famous quotes containing the word retirement:
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—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)
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We may boldly spend, upon the hope
Of what is to come in.
A comfort of retirement lives in this.
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