THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

When he last spoke in public, at his old Dublin rugby club a few hefty punts from the church where they held his funeral mass on Thursday, Tony O’Reilly summed up his extraordinary life in one sentence:
“You win and you lose and if you don’t know how to lose, you don’t know how to live.’’
Long before he began making millions by the hundred running the Heinz ketchup empire from Pittsburgh, before Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton began beating a presidential path to his Irish mansion, O’Reilly knew what it was like to be humiliated by defeat.
That it took place a...