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Emily O'Reilly

Emily O'Reilly

Former European Ombudsman (2013–2025) and Irish journalist, previously Ombudsman and Information Commissioner for Ireland

Aug 20, 2026

10:56
not a great working relationship.
10:58
No, it was, you know, I was I mean, I saw things very in a very straightforward way.
11:04
This is what the law says you're supposed to do.
11:06
These are the principles under which you're supposed to operate.
11:09
I find in this particular instance that you haven't done that.
11:12
So would you please, you know, do what I recommend? And therefore, I was seen as slightly controversial, a little bit troublesome, whatever.
11:23
And I always rejected that because I said, no, I'm actually just asking people, requiring them.

12 MINS LATER

23:41
You think there's a cultural element to that policy now?
10:56
not a great working relationship.
10:58
No, it was, you know, I was I mean, I saw things very in a very straightforward way.
11:04
This is what the law says you're supposed to do.
11:06
These are the principles under which you're supposed to operate.
11:09
I find in this particular instance that you haven't done that.
11:12
So would you please, you know, do what I recommend? And therefore, I was seen as slightly controversial, a little bit troublesome, whatever.
11:23
And I always rejected that because I said, no, I'm actually just asking people, requiring them.

12 MINS LATER

23:41
You think there's a cultural element to that policy now?
14:11
So so what happened then health wise?
14:14
Well, he well, the Kaposi's sarcoma, Brian, he just he just he was terrified it was going to go to his face.
14:22
And he insisted on chemo.
14:23
I mean, one day when he was getting a transfusion for the sodium thing, he happened to be in a ward where people were having chemo.
14:32
And he said to me, I envied them.
14:35
So he had four rounds of chemo and then he had a fall because of the sodium issue and the bruise was contraindicated for chemo, so that had to stop.
14:43
And then he was losing vast amounts of weight.
18:37
Did he die of AIDS?

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