[2] As a member of the Reform Alliance group, she sat as an Independent senator, having lost the Fine Gael parliamentary party whip in July 2013.
[1] In April 2019, Healy Eames was a candidate in the 2019 European Parliament election in Ireland for the Midlands-North West constituency.
[8] Healy Eames graduated from both Carysfort College, Western Connecticut State University in the US, and NUI Galway, holding B.Ed., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees respectively.
[9] During the 2018 referendum to remove the constitutional prohibition of abortion, Healy Eames set up an anti-abortion website to advocate adoption as an option in crisis pregnancies.
[14] In July 2015, during a Seanad debate on a bill to curb online freedom of speech, Healy Eames referred to a "wiffycode" (meaning a Wi-Fi hotspot password).
A fellow passenger alleged that Healy Eames said "she is a Senator and that she makes the law" when an inspector asked her to produce her ticket.
[26] The following month, on 20 August, she was involved in controversy over her decision to charge a state agency the cost of a plane ticket for her husband to accompany her on a hotel break to Kenya.
[27] In March 2015, she attracted press attention for a tweet in which she claimed that were Ireland to legally recognise same-sex marriage, it could mean an end to the celebration of Mothers Day in the country.
[29][30] In defending her comments, Healy Eames cited as her source Rense.com, a website run by Jeff Rense, a conspiracy theorist known for Holocaust denial, and criticised by the Anti-Defamation League.