Profile: Leonard Ryan, Mickey O’Rourke, Mark O’Meara

The founders of Setanta Sports are now building a substantial hospitality business

It requires some chutzpah to take on Rupert Murdoch. But that’s exactly what Leonard Ryan, Mickey O’Rourke and Mark O’Meara did.

The founders of Setanta Sports made an audacious bid against Sky for hundreds of millions worth of English Premier League football television rights in 2009. But it didn’t work out.

Just a year before, they were reportedly fielding takeover bids in the range of €1.3 billion. But in the end, Setanta UK ...