I see that Danny Healy-Rae this week proclaimed: “It is a fact that it has been raining in Co Kerry for at least seven weeks.”

He was speaking in relation to the slurry spreading deadline and that cattle were housed.

The Twitterati were out in force, tweeting that there was a four-day dry spell in the county at one stage and that the weekend before in Killarney it was also dry.

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