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...ketchup company was top-shelf when he left in 1998 and headed home. Now, while the world invests in microchips, wireless and broadband, Anthony O'Reilly, 70, has created Ireland's biggest fortune from sand (Waterford Wedgwood), landline phones (Eircom) and print (Independent News & Media). He spoke with TIME's Bill Saporito about what drives his counterintuitive choices...
...Independent News & Media, which has interests in newspapers in Ireland, England, India and Africa. Isn't print dead...
...That's why they're equipped to go after the three major areas in which they are under threat: cars, houses and jobs. Look up PropertyNews.com which is the largest property site here, with 11 billion hits per month, more than the BBC--the biggest thing right now in Ireland. It's got 20,000 properties on it. It's the most advanced site of its type, and we bought it yesterday. So we are pursuing the parallel path because we know the region...
...methods used to gauge it can befuddle dilettantes, good fortune can smile on the persistent. In 2003, following the Garden Party disappointment, Lo and his partners from various corners of Hong Kong's professional world - manufacturing, movies and modeling - located another 2-year-old gelding named Pocket Money in Ireland through a trainer's connections. They bought him and shipped him to Hong Kong. After two seasons with little consistent success racing the horse at various distances and in differing weight classes, they switched to another trainer, who guessed Pocket Money was best suited...
...many of his international peers. The annual salary of U.S. President George W. Bush, for example, is $494,000, versus $384,000 for U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and $391,000 for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Sarkozy's official income is also dwarfed by that of European pay champion, Ireland's Bertie Ahern, who pulls in a cool $446,000. Nadine Morano, spokeswoman of Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Movement party, argued that the increase was insignificant when viewed in broader terms. "Think about certain soccer players or television personalities," she said. "The raise requested...