Daniel McConnell

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The Business Post Podcast · Ep 25: Emily O'Reilly, former European Ombudsman · 20 Aug 2026 podcast

Tickets are available uh and you can see the details on the website. voice-verified

If you just look for economic outlook forum you will uh you will see it there and we hope to see you on the day. voice-verified

To today's episode, our guest is a longstand or has a longstanding association with the Business Post. voice-verified

She having worked here for for uh for us many years ago, long before probably Peter you and I came here. voice-verified

Absolutely uh Emily O'Reilly, she is a as we said, a very experienced journalist, author. voice-verified

Uh she then moved on into becoming the Ombudsman here in Ireland and then went off to be the Ombudsman in Europe. voice-verified

Uh and Peter, you did the interview with Emily O'Reilly. voice-verified

Fascinating on so many on so many levels. voice-verified

Very different to I suppose to our kind of our business interviews here. voice-verified

But I thought she's a journalist to her core, clearly, even though she's gone on to kind of take on these very illustrious uh jobs in Europe. voice-verified

But that instinct to holding power to account voice-verified

I just leapt off or I leapt off through three years when I was listening back to the interview, look. voice-verified

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Now I thought the whole scope of the interview was fascinating, but you when you got into at the start, relatively early on, in terms of her role in Europe, how she even got into the role in Europe, her almost you know, saying she had to lobby and almost be a politician to kind of because she was elected into that position by the centre left kind of grouping. voice-verified

But I thought the most one of the most interesting aspects of the interview was her describing how the EPP, which is Phoenix's parent party. voice-verified

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doing their best to sort of ignore the rule of law when it suited them. voice-verified

And she gives voice to the fact that y having to be re elected voice-verified

Uh, whereas I I I get the sense that uh uh her first election was relatively comfortable, if that's the right phrase, but the second election, because the mood or because the the dynamic at European level had changed, that was f it was a far tougher fight. voice-verified

But also as well she made the point that no matter how good an ombudsman she was, because her political hues or she wasn't she wasn't coming from a particular group voice-verified

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