Ireland has their own data protection act which largely mirrors the GDPR. I first have to wonder why. Why rewrite an EU regulation, if not to do something twisted? IIUC, Ireland is part of the EU thus automatically obligated to enforce the full GDPR as-is. (Unlike Great Britain, who left the union but decided voluntarily to keep the GDPR, so they had to mirror it and rewrite some parts that are irrelevant to an EU outsider). Or is Ireland somehow outside the EU too, yet with the Euro?