Peter John Hooper, Director at NEW IRELAND FUND INC (IRL), bought 3,000 shares at $4.82 ($14K) on 2009-01-20, disclosed to the SEC on 2009-01-21.
Open-market purchase of $14k IRL by Director. Below the thresholds we flag for high-conviction alerts (no C-suite role, rare reversal, cluster, or A-grade history).
Something here stands out, but not much.