Long Before Dragons’ Den
Sep 9, 2018 · 5 min read
The Salmon Leap Pub
I’d heard this story a few times over the years. It was an O’Reilly family urban legend, and as with urban legends, you’re never too sure how true they really are.
“You wanna hear the best one?” my uncle, Robert O’Reilly, said to me. This was the first time somebody would be telling me about it.
It was the summer of ’91, and I was a seventeen-year-old on my working hols in Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland. We were in the Salmon Leap pub, my Uncle’s local watering hole. I was a minor, but in Ireland, that…

