O'Reilly was born in Dublin and was the only child of a civil servant, John O'Reilly (1906–1976), and Aileen … See more

Between 1955 and 1970 O'Reilly won 29 caps for Ireland. His Five Nations career of 15 years, 23 days is the longest in history, a record shared with fellow Ireland player Mike Gibson. He made his senior internation… See more

O'Reilly went from college to work as a management consultant for Weston-Evans in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire; he earned £200 annually, which was a very good salary by the then Irish standards. While there… See more

O'Reilly sponsored and supported a wide range of charitable activities. Several of these, such as the many-year support of a professorship in Australian Studies at UCD, were arranged together with his first wife, and likewis… See more

O'Reilly was first engaged in 1958, to Dorothy Connolly, whom he had met in 1954, with the marriage planned for 1959.
He met his first wife, Australian secretary and pianist Susan M. Cameron, the daughter o… See more

An authorised biography, The Player: The Life of Tony O'Reilly, was written by Ivan Fallon, a journalist and biographer in the early 1990s, later a senior executive at one of O'Reilly's companies, and was for many years the o… See more

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