Among rugby enthusiasts, he is still considered as probably the best player ever to come out of Ireland. In the business world, he was the youngest ever chief executive of a state corporation in Ireland, where he successfully launched Kerrygold butter, then rocketed to the top of H J Heinz in Pittsburgh. Now, at 57, Tony O'Reilly has amassed a fortune of $500 million and includes among his controlling interests a substantial chain of Australian newspapers, Waterford Wedgewood, Ireland's second biggest supermarket chain and the Irish Independent Newspapers Group. In this first biography of the multi-talented tycoon, Ivan Fallon leaves no stone unturned to present a fair, often surprising and always compelling portrait of one of Ireland's most powerful and charismatic men.