“There shall be an attorney general who shall be the adviser of the government in matters of law and legal opinion,” reads article 30 of Bunreacht na hÉireann. The most important words here are ‘adviser’ and ‘law’.

Fine Gael councillor Ted Leddy, close friend and constituency ally of Leo Varadkar, asked Fingal County Council not to to publish one of his attempts at a declaration of interests. The council complied with his request.

The Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) ignored its own procedures to decide against pursuing a complaint against Micheál Martin. SIPO shut down the complaint against Martin before it investigated the claims.

Virgilio Fernández del Real, at almost 100 years old, knew how to deal with fascists.

The businessman at the centre of the Paschal Donohoe donation controversy was pursued in the High Court by a vulture fund over a mortgage default on a now-vacant investment property.