Gabija Gatavecaite

So you'd wonder, did her death really bring about as much change as perhaps it could have?

Yes, so it's financial reporting that there's a Sinn Féin TD who's been sued for illegally passing sensitive information relating to a constituent to her ex-husband without her knowledge.

Now, he reports that the ex-husband is a Sinn Féin activist and brother of the provisional IRA member, Edward O'Brien, who blew himself up 30 years ago.

And there's an investigation that has found that the TD for Wicklow Exford, Fionn Tháin,

O'Sullivan, is the Sinn Féin TD there, broke data protection law when he obtained and shared the information on the constituent without her consent.

So I think it was the husband that went looking for the information.

The TD, who was a councillor at the time, got onto the council, asked for the information and the council provided it, I suppose, in good faith and that report in the Sunday Independent today.

Yes.

And I, and I do want to point to something else as well is there's a lot of talk about the EU presidency.

Of course, that's, you know, we're kickstarting that in a couple of weeks time, a couple of reports about it across the papers, the Sunday times reports about how it's going to be a logistical nightmare in terms of roads that are going to be closed everywhere, because of course these high level politicians are going to have to be brought in and shipped in and motorcades and the rest of it.

And then, you know, the average person who gets no motorcade is going to have to suffer.

Um,

The Business Post really following on that thread, they're saying far too comfortable.

Ministers slam Brussels on slow reform and Cabinet is going to make competitiveness the centrepiece of Irish EU presidency.

Quite literally everything, housing, electricity, heat.

Well, Brussels is, quote, far too comfortable and its reform agenda is moving at, quote, a snail's pace.

Cabinet ministers have fumed and the Airbnb clampdown, as the Indo termed it, that is being brought in through the legislative process now by James Brown, latest housing minister, to bring that in.

You know, it's been delayed for a very long time, but it's the clampdown on short term lets.

I remember reporting on that a couple of years ago for the Irish Independent and the government sort of saying to me, yes, the EU is bringing its own clamp down, but they're too slow.

So Brussels have been blamed for this for a very long time now.