Daniel McConnell

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3,044 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 4d ago

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

And and and obviously you you covered her journalistic career and uh you got into it and I thought it was very interesting to sort of she gave a very evocative, I think, view or or kind of image or portrayal of what journalism was like west was when she was coming up at the start. voice-verified

And I thought very interesting, I mean she she spoke of a very big scoop that she had early on in her career, the Anne Lovett case. voice-verified

Which I think anybody like I was too young, we were probably too young, uh yeah at that stage, but it's one that has loomed large particularly voice-verified

Tiki in the context of abortion, women's rights, all that kind of stuff. voice-verified

Um and I thought, you know, uh as you rightly said, it's it that that's the sort of story that stands the test of time and you talk about in thirty, forty years' time which we which we which you're doing. voice-verified

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But she paints I won't say a rose tinted ver version of but I think you asked the question directly as well, which is kind was journalism more fun back in those days? voice-verified

Um and I and I I think you know, she gives voice-verified

Well, like mobile phones didn't exist then, so you had to be social. voice-verified

You had to get your stories from meeting people and getting out and and I think it is possibly voice-verified

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part of the law skill in in our game to a certain degree, but but she's had a very interesting career, you know, with with ourselves in the business post, the Sunday Tribune, um and then uh you know, really I think more so I think she wrote quite a number of very important books. voice-verified

I mean like we you spoke about the Veronica Gear book during the during the podcast and we'll get onto that in the postmatch analysis. voice-verified

But she had some excellent books about that about that period of contemporary art voice-verified

she wasn't given the sort of I think what was I liked about most of the books is that she gave she wasn't afraid to go against the sort of con you know prevailing view. voice-verified

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And particularly as I said, we'll get into the Veronica Gearin book afterwards. voice-verified

But she certainly didn't deliver what was the majority view on Veronica Gearen in that book. voice-verified

And that's I suppose a lesson for all of us. voice-verified

I think, you know, in in this game that there's no shame in being the most unpopular person in the room by being the the kind of doubting Thomas in the corner like you know, which is uh a powerful lesson for us all. voice-verified

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