Emily O'Reilly is an author and former journalist and broadcaster who became Ireland's first female Ombudsman in 2003, succeeding Kevin Murphy.
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12 Facts About Emily O'Reilly
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Emily O'Reilly was re-elected in 2014 and in 2019, in each case for a mandate of five more years.
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Emily O'Reilly was educated at University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, and Harvard University, where she was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in journalism.
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Emily O'Reilly resigned in September 1999 when the magazine's sister publication, In Dublin, was banned by the Censorship of Publications Appeal Board for advertising brothels and prostitution services.
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Emily O'Reilly was a broadcaster on Raidio Teilifis Eireann and Today FM.
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Emily O'Reilly has said of her job title, "I will be an ombudswoman but will have no difficulty in being referred to as either".
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Emily O'Reilly retired from these positions and was succeeded by Peter Tyndall in December 2013.
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Emily O'Reilly mentioned the Irish Revenue Commissioners in this context, pointing out that a significant proportion of the clients of these bodies "do not have access to the web" and therefore the level of personal contact is inadequate as a consequence.
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Emily O'Reilly believed that public access to information under the Freedom of Information Act had been "excessively curtailed", often in order to protect sectional interests, such as the performance of schools.
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Emily O'Reilly advised that the Act should be extended to include a number of public bodies previously exempted from the law, including the Garda Siochana, the Central Bank of Ireland and the National Asset Management Agency and that fees charged were a further inhibitor.
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Emily O'Reilly is the author of three books: Candidate: The Truth Behind the Presidential Campaign, about President of Ireland Mary Robinson; Masterminds of the Right about political Catholicism in Ireland; and the controversial biography, Veronica Guerin .
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Emily O'Reilly was appointed European Ombudsman by the European Parliament in 2013, and re-appointed in 2014 and 2019.
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