 The Healy-Raes' main rivals for votes in Kerry are Fianna Fáil candidates.Outside the Dáil chamber, Jackie was always seen wearing a trademark flat cap in public; though Danny appears bare-headed, Michael has carried on the tradition, and in February 2017 was permitted to wear it in the Dáil chamber.Michael was nicknamed "Dolly", after the cloned sheep, for being similar to his father; journalist Shane Hegarty enumerated "[t]he flat cap, the mannerisms, the political ambition, the linguistic trickery, the neck".