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Sir Tony O'Reilly - How the mighty have fallen!

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  • #32
    kuntboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭kuntboy


    He's quite well read actually , he wrote a really good article on Napoleon a few years ago.


  • #33
    meathstevie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,777 ✭✭✭meathstevie


    Valetta wrote: »
    Where did the jobs come from in the first place?

    Definitely not from O'Reilly's entrepreneurship but from one Mr J Wedgewood, William Martin Murphy, the Irish state....etc etc. Just about everything he touched turned to pure ****e.


  • #34
    IrishHomer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,058 ✭✭✭IrishHomer


    A pal of mine went out with his daughter, she ended up marrying a butcher :)


  • #35
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Wasn't he resposible for the Kerrygold brand?

    Also Ryanair of course.

    Two of our biggest companies and brands employing 1,000's of people.

    He deserved his wealth in my opinion.


  • #36
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    kuntboy wrote: »
    He's quite well read actually , he wrote a really good article on Napoleon a few years ago.

    It's here, for anyone interested.


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  • #37
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭sabat


    Not a fan of him personally but unlike most of Ireland's other rich people he brought far more money into the country than he took out.


  • #38
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Wasn't he resposible for the Kerrygold brand?

    Also Ryanair of course.

    Two of our biggest companies and brands employing 1,000's of people.

    He deserved his wealth in my opinion.

    Kerrygold, yes - but responsible for Ryanair? Are you confusing him with Tony Ryan?


  • #39
    RoiSoleil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭RoiSoleil


    I have a feeling he'll be just fine.


  • #40
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Wasn't he resposible for the Kerrygold brand?

    Also Ryanair of course.

    Two of our biggest companies and brands employing 1,000's of people.

    He deserved his wealth in my opinion.


    ...and now it seems he deserved to lose it.


  • #41
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    RoiSoleil wrote: »
    I have a feeling he'll be just fine.

    Hes not going to be by an ATM with a mcdonalds cup anytime soon.


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  • #42
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    Begrudgery? No.

    Epicaricacy, Schadenfreude or poetic justice? Perhaps.

    Epicaricacy

    What an elegantly savage word. You're brilliant!


  • #43
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Nodin wrote: »
    Hes not going to be by an ATM with a mcdonalds cup anytime soon.

    He'd be more of a Burger King man.


  • #44
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    He'd be more of a Burger King man.

    Where do you get them from - you're wasted here, you need to be on "Mastermind" or some such - bet every pub quiz team wants you. :D


  • #45
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    donegal__road wrote: »
    there are no shops in the graveyard..

    yet many people will spend their short lives ruthlessly accumulating money, in the hope that they can 'do a little living' before they die.

    http://31.media.tumblr.com/661a224e9b26e78dfbfd4cecb47b2827/tumblr_mucmxjFJoo1rci0cgo1_400.jpg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pToA9yWlJ-Y


  • #46
    2012paddy2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭2012paddy2012


    Andy Dunne11 wrote: »
    I wonder has anyone checked lodgements in his wifes account(s) lately. Just saying ;)

    Has more money than ever be sure/ just a different name on ATM card


  • #47
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    Kerrygold, yes - but responsible for Ryanair? Are you confusing him with Tony Ryan?

    Sorry my mistake.

    Principle the same though. He was a wealth creator.

    I think with some people just hate those who have more than they do.


  • #48
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Sorry my mistake.

    Principle the same though. He was a wealth creator.

    I think with some people just hate those who have more than they do.


    Wow, he created "wealth". Then he used it to further his own agenda. Then he fell flat on his face.

    Success - Hubris - Downfall. Nothing new there.


  • #49
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Muise... wrote: »
    Epicaricacy

    What an elegantly savage word. You're brilliant!

    It's epic! :o


  • #50
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    It's epic! :o

    picaresque, almost.


  • #51
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Muise... wrote: »
    picaresque, almost.

    T'is dat


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  • #52
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Why do people always have to assume dislike of someone who has done well for themselves financially is "begrudgery"? :confused:

    I mean, the lads who started Daft.ie - all I think about them is that they did something brilliant and fairplay to them.
    But T. O'Reilly's newspapers are appalling editorially - they really push an unpleasant agenda; that's why I'm not a fan.


  • #53
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    Magaggie wrote: »
    Why do people always have to assume dislike of someone who has done well for themselves financially is "begrudgery"? :confused:

    Probably cos they are either jealous and /or strapping to get by and play the "oh woe is me" card.

    When really, just get up off yer bum and make something outta yerself.. or get a second job!


  • #54
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Nemeses wrote: »
    Probably cos they are either jealous and /or strapping to get by and play the "oh woe is me" card.
    But it can also be because the person in question is an ass, monied or not monied.


  • #55
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    Magaggie wrote: »
    But it can also be because the person in question is an ass, monied or not monied.

    That too..


  • #56
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    Valetta wrote: »
    Where did the jobs come from in the first place?

    Sir Tony magically pulled them out of his bottom.

    This is the great BS myth. That someone with access to capital, and ploughs it into a business "creates" jobs - gives them as gifts.

    That the success of the business has nothing to do with how hard the employees work. it's the senior management and the "owner" (the guy who gets finance to buy the business because of his class).

    Waterford Crystal existed long before Tony. And it's in his hands the whole thing went to arse.

    I used to hear the stories all the time, it's amazing he took it as far as he did, before it all turned to cack and slipped through his fingers.

    Quinn is another "job creator", who made an complete arse of it. Harmed everyone in the country, and cause untold misery for many of his employees - or even unemployees.


  • #57
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Only time in everything, only cared about money all his life, what has it got him in the end, nothing.


  • #58
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Only time in everything, only cared about money all his life, what has it got him in the end, nothing.

    There's a lot more to the guy than that, to be fair.


  • #59
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Sorry my mistake.

    Principle the same though. He was a wealth creator.

    I think with some people just hate those who have more than they do.

    Borrow me 170 million, I'll scatter it around, people can ooh and aah over how clever I am. Then, when it's gone, and there's no hope of paying it back, people can also say "ah sure jasus, he used to be doing so well". Fcuked up system we endure. Connections beget finance, finance leads to personal wealth.


  • #60
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    I've had the pleasure of watching Tony O'Reilly speak on more than one occasion. A wonderfully perceptive, warm and engaging speaker with a great intellect and passion for business. Always a risk taker, he ended up making a few bad investments. Only for the Grace of God go most of us.

    I always smirk when I read the usual shower go on about the legacy of Independent News and Media. His media group sold the most successful papers in the country. They captured the zeitgeist far better than other papers. Just because they annoyed the malcontents who believed in armed struggle and collective socialist misery doesn't mean they don't represent a valid viewpoint.


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  • #61
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Omg yeh so tru. anyone who finds those rags to be contemptible believes in armed struggle and hardline socialism.


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