Oh this is very nice, I spent about 2 hours getting around some bullshit bug with Vagrant and VirtualBox to work on ARM OSX at the weekend. This took 5 minutes to setup.
In Ireland there is no legal mechanism to do a background check unless you work with children or are in law enforcement. Even collecting and recording public information on individuals can be problematic with the data commission. Employee reference checks are acceptable for auditors in that case.