If you’re unclear about the circumstances of why John O’Donoghue was forced to resign as Ceann Comhairle, I wrote a book about breaking that story & the expenses reform that resulted from the scandal: https://twitter.com/irishtimes/status/1275542156346707969

Ironically, one of the major reforms to the expenses system that followed that summer’s revelations was to make system much less transparent. Slightly cheaper but all invoices/receipts exempt from FOI and considered “private papers”. It was a hard lesson to learn that even ...

... when your journalism did effect change, the political system is geared toward self-preservation, happy to make an occasional sacrifice, & determined not to get caught out the same way twice. Reform is often a self serving mechanism especially when it comes to pay/expenses ...

... anyway, about that book! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Snouts-Trough-Ken-Foxe/dp/071714836X