Long Before Dragons’ Den

James Dargan
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…

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James Dargan

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Author & futurist writing about quantum computers, AI, crypto/blockchain. Content Director @ thequantumdaily.com Read my fiction on Amazon or jamesdargan.com

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