This landmark biography of Tony O'Reilly, Irish businessman and rugby participant, attracts on an abundance of latest fabric, together with interviews with a lot of O'Reilly's closest kin, pals, affiliates, and competitors, to discover the fellow in the back of the parable. O'Reilly led the self sufficient information & Media team for over 3 a long time and used to be the CEO of H.J. Heinz corporation in the USA. absolutely, he used to be the main strong unelected Irishman of the earlier 50 years. this day, O'Reilly's empire and the ambitious acceptance it verified lie in tatters. This booklet records in unflinching aspect and with nice subtlety the meteoric upward push and sluggish unraveling of an Irish icon.
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