Irish Examiner view: Standing in the shadows

In this picture provided by Swedish Coast Guard, the gas leak in the Baltic Sea from Nord Stream photographed from the Coast Guard's aircraft on Wednesday. A fourth leak on the Nord Stream pipelines has been reported off southern Sweden. Earlier, three leaks had been reported on the two underwater pipelines running from Russia to Germany. Picture: Swedish Coast Guard via AP

During an excessively busy news week — an important budget here; gas pipelines apparently being sabotaged; mobilisation in Russia; high jinks in the financial markets; a terrible hurricane in Florida — it was easy to miss an important report on how Ireland is combatting human trafficking.

And the verdict, from our European neighbours, is the equivalent of a report card C minus.