Tony O'Reilly

Um, and always doing it as a side gig for, for extra income, uh, including out in Dalby.

Uh, and, um, also, but strangely enough, an Irish media mag- magnate called Tony O'Reilly bought the paper out after about a year of me being out there just about ready to die.

Uh, 'cause it was owned by this lovely old couple who wanted me to go and take photos of Mrs. Jones' prize rose garden, you know? That was it.

But then-

So you can't teach it? No, I don't think so.

And you can quote the former Tony O'Reilly, Sir Anthony O'Reilly on that.

He says, if you haven't got the proper genes, you ain't going to make it.

No amount of training will make you a leader if you haven't got the genes.

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Friends told that the outlet, the goldsmith in O'Reilly, who is the son of late Sir Anthony O'Reilly, a rugby star, turned media magnate split.

The times between her West London board and his place in Switzerland.

They first met through work and were friends for a while before that.

Oh, there you go.

Well, Tony said that on this podcast.

I don't remember that.

Sorry.

You can't be f-" you know, doing the, and saying, "We have total, we have total authority here."

Well, I'll give you a different, and I may have mentioned this on the podcast previously, so my apologies to listeners if I have.

But I remember one day that we were having a lunch with Clinton in Tony O'Reilly's house in Fitzwilliam Square, and when Clinton left, we were watching out the window, uh, as he went out, and he's, people started coming out of all the offices around, and he just plowed into the crowds.

Mm.

There was then pressure put on including through the media.

I mean it was no surprise obviously when it turned out that one of Tony O'Reilly's companies who owned an independent newspaper group, that it turned out that one of his companies had given Ray Burke 50 grand and this only emerged in 1998. as well.

That changed the tone of the reporting, and I don't blame the reporters of the newspaper at the time, but it certainly changed the approach to the allegations being made by Gogarty and Gilmartin and others.

I was the victim of what you might call a setup where a guy comes to me, ironically called Dennis O'Brien, nothing to do with the businessman who got the phone licence, a guy from Cork who alleged that he had given 50,000 to two politicians.

I saw you turn out.

I thought you were going to be like, all right, Tony O'Reilly, whatever the doctor, the generals.

Anyway.

So that's that, okay? Yeah.