The Sunday Interview: Emily O'Reilly
Making the EU more accountable to its citizens is at the core of O’Reilly’s mission as European Ombudsman
CV: Emily O’Reilly
Role: European Ombudsman
Age:57
Lives: Strasbourg and Howth
Family: married to Stephen Ryan, five children aged from 16 to 25
Currently reading: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Favourite movie: Looking For Dev
We are sitting in the picturesque Place Lux Square in front of the European Parliament having a beer. Emily O’Reilly’s senior adviser is pointing to the Brussels bars where bureaucrats, politicians and lobbyists meet.
The European Ombudsman ...