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

Emily O'Reilly

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 ...