Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre has been sold for almost one-and-a-half-million pounds to Leitrim businessman Gerry O’Reilly by Joe Murphy, who has owned the theatre since 1966.

Report shows Gaiety Theatre.

Extract from Brendan Behan's ‘Borstal Boy’ with Niall Toibín.

Peking Opera and singer Colm Wilkinson.

Two nightclubs owned by O’Reilly: Bad Bob's Backstage Bar and The Waterfront.

The reporter is Eileen Magnier.

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