Profile of Tedcastle Holdings: A TOP-drawer deal

If you want to follow the real action in Ireland’s mergers and acquisitions scene, look no further than the humble petrol station

Factfile

Name: Tedcastle Holdings

Age:218

Appearance: green frontage, newly minted

Newsworthiness: the Reihill-owned fuel business was sold last week to Irving Oil

When John Reihill, the patriarch of the Tedcastle fuel dynasty, passed away in 2013, he left behind both a financial fortune and a personal legacy. The humanist ceremony, which he planned himself, included music from Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and a performance by the soprano Miriam Murphy.

His son Raymond ...