obitcheries

The freewheeling, self parodyingly avant garde, broadcaster, songwriter, composer, wit, Shay Healy has died.

He is not a relation of mine.

In 2012 he earned my respect by responding to a bigoted sneer from a broadcaster called Ray Darcy.

Ray Darcy had said: "The Catholic Church f--ked up Ireland.

Shay Healy responded:

"We need a new verb to describe the mess these people (those slandering the Catholic Church) are making of Ireland. When we want to say a situation is beyond f--ked up, from now on, we will say: Everything has been Raydarcied."