Code | DS/UK/2398 |
Dates | 1936-2023 |
Person Name | O'Reilly; Sir; Anthony Joseph Francis 'Tony' (1936-2023); Irish rugby union played and businessman |
Surname | O'Reilly |
Forenames | Anthony Joseph Francis 'Tony' |
PreTitle | Sir |
Epithet | Irish rugby union played and businessman |
Activity | Educated Belvedere College. Wing, played for x, Ireland (1955-1970, 29 caps, 12 points) and British and Irish Lions (1955-1959, 10 caps, 18 points). Later came up with the Kerrygold brand and became chairman and CEO of Heinz foods. In 1973 took control of Independent Newspapers, publisher of the Irish Independent, Sunday Independent and Evening Herald. Eventually an unsuccessful takeover of Waterford Wedgwood china and glass company into which O'Reilly and his brother-in-law were estimated to have sunk £400m before it went into receivership in 2009. This bankrupted him personally. O'Reilly was knighted in the 2001 New Year Honours. |
Dates and Places | Born 7 May 1936, Dublin, Ireland, died 18 May 2024, aged 88, at St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. |
RefNo | Title |
BML/1/11/3 | Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus France, Lansdowne Road, 18 April 1959 |
BML/1/11/2 | Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus France, Lansdowne Road, 26 January 1957. |
BML/1/7/1 | Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus England, Lansdowne Road, 9 February 1957. |
BML/1/3/4 | Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus Scotland, Lansdowne Road, 1 March 1958. |
BML/1/3/2 | Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus Scotland, Lansdowne Road, 25 February 1956. |
BML/1/7/3 | Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus England, Lansdowne Road, 14 February 1959. |
BML/1/3/5 | Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Ireland, Murrayfield, 28 February 1959. |
BML/1/11/1 | Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus France, Lansdowne Road, 22 January 1955 |
BML/1/3/3 | Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Ireland, Murrayfield, 23 February 1957 |
BML/1/11/4 | Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus France, Lansdowne Road, 15 April 1961. |
BML/1/7/2 | Big sheet and bundle, England versus Ireland, Twickenham, 8 February 1958. |
BML/1/7/7 | Big sheet and bundle, England versus Ireland, Twickenham, 14 February 1970 |
BML/2/2/4 | Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus Australia, Lansdowne Road, 18 January 1958 |
BML/1/7/30 | Big sheet and bundle, England versus Ireland, Twickenham, 19 February 1994 |