Former Group Chief Executive Officer of Independent News and Media, Gavin O’Reilly
[Gavin] O’Reilly faced some bizarre obstacles during his years as INM chief executive. For a while, he was under surveillance by a team of people led by a former MI5 intelligence officer.
The matter came to a head on June 2, 2011, the day before INM’s annual general meeting, when O’Reilly was followed into the city centre by a group of men. This led to the Gardaí being alerted, and the men following him being questioned. Does O’Reilly know what it was all about?
“We found out quite a lot,” said O’Reilly, “and the Garda Síochána found out quite a bit. But as to who the paymaster was? No. I can only speculate, but whoever they were and whatever they wanted to do, I suspect they were probably disappointed by what they found.”
“Maybe they thought I frequented houses of ill repute, or something like that [laughs]. Probably what they found was me going into the office every morning at seven o’clock. But yeah, it was strange.”
INM said in January 2014 that it had carried out an extensive investigation of the matter and that the issue was closed.
Gavin O’Reilly in yesterday’s Sunday Business Post.
There you go now.
Previously: Gavin Gone
“Maybe they thought I frequented houses of ill repute”
Like the INM offices on Talbot Street?
But un-seriously though, my money for the paymaster would be on [REDACTED] (or Gav’s nutritional adviser who was trying to figure out why Gav was piling on the pounds and turning into such a total lardarse).
Surely this was, em, ‘Lord Voldemort’, no?
All signs point that way.
A good hacker would have yielded a better return on investment ;)
Everyone at that level is spying on each other trying to get some dirt. Same happens politicians so that business people can blackmail them.
A dirty business is money.
Were any spies hired during the tenure of O’Reilly’s at the helm of INM
over the last 40 years….just wondering.
I wonder has the “Auld Fellow” on the books of the Agency Ltd, as he should
have a few interesting yarns to recant in particular on the workings of INM and
its connection with political intrigue….full stop.
As trolls go Gav is a real boring one