Triple-titled mogul drops names down memory lane

IF name-dropping is an art then Tony O’Reilly is Michelangelo.

The supreme ceiling painter was one of the few heavyweights not to plummet from the lofty jaws of the media mogul as he took the stand in the Moriarty Tribunal in a performance that should have made the wearing of hard hats and steel-toed boots compulsory.

“I know the Kennedy family very well,” he informed the chamber. And he wasn’t referring to the Kennedys of Kiltimagh.

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