It’s coming up to 9am on a Friday morning in October and on the penthouse floor of his office at Dublin’s Grand Canal Quay, Denis O’Brien sits at the boardroom table, immaculate in a dark suit, with a coffee and a scone in front of him. He’s in good form, ready to talk. I’ve come to interview him about the media businesses he got out of, specifically his radio stations. There were a few reasons, he says, but a big one was that news coverage of him back then was “poisoning my view of the country”.  The conversation ends up…

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