>From this week's Kerry's Eye on line **************************************************************************** *** Civil War Politics alive in Kerry? There has been shock and dismay in Kerry this week at the failure of most Kerry politicians to pay their respects to 105-year-old Dan Keating who died last week. Dan Keating was the last surviving veteran of Ireland’s War of Independence. Normally thick on the ground at Kerry funerals and tripping over themselves to be noticed, their absence was visibly noticed at Keating’ s funeral. Kerry’s public representatives, which includes over 50 town and county councillors, and eight of the nine Oireachtas members, stayed away from the requiem mass of the county’s oldest person. Newly elected Senator Mark Daly was the only Kerry public representative at the requiem Mass. Mayor of Kerry Michael Healy-Rae, Fine Gael councillor Michael O'Connor Scarteen and Tom Fleming (FF) attended the removal on Thursday night. Are Civil War politics still alive in Kerry? What a shame our politicians could not have put their political differences aside and attended the funeral to bid farewell to one of Ireland’s oldest and best known citizens.