Gabija Gatavecaite

I want to start off with the Mail on Sunday, who is leading off with the newly appointed junior minister, Catherine Ardagh.

And the Mail is reporting that a legal firm co-owned by the minister acts as a debt collector for one of the country's biggest private nursing home providers.

Now, Fianna Fáil TD Catherine Ardagh, she was promoted to fill in the space left vacant by independent minister Michael Healy-Ray yesterday.

And she is a solicitor and she has been for a while.

And now she's supposedly, you know, she's finishing off her stake and she's dissolving her role in the business.

But the Mail has done quite a deep dive on it.

And they're saying that Miss Ardagh's company acts as a debt collector on behalf of Highfield Healthcare, one of the biggest private health care operators in the state.

And they're saying the legal firm was this weekend accused of employing heavy-handed tactics on behalf of its client and sending threatening letters seeking payments of large sums of money to the family of former elderly patient who suffered from dementia.

It's the daughter of the patient.

The Mail on Sunday journalist, Nicola Byrne, said one of the letters she received from Ardal McCabe was dated May 9th, two weeks before Miss Ardal's ministerial promotion.

And she's saying, when I got the most recent letter from Ardal McCabe, I looked up the company, saw that it was owned and run by a TD,

Not only that, but she's just been made a minister of state at the Department of Justice.

Well, I wanted to touch on Veronica Guerin because on Friday it'll be 30 years when she was killed.

You know, she was driving in her car, as of course we know.

June 26, 1996, she was shot and killed when she was driving her car.

She was actually up in court that morning.

And yesterday I actually spent quite a bit of time looking back on Veronica Guerin because Matt Cooper's podcast, Path to Power, has a whole episode dedicated to it.

She's one of the reasons I think myself and many other young reporters got into journalism.

I watched the interview that she did with none other than yourself, Pat Kenny, on Kenny Live sometime before she died.

But there is a number of tributes to her in the Sunday Independent and also in the Business Post too.