He added that he had been told of two family members who were killed by the American Mafia in the 1930s, but the Who Do You Think You Are? researchers did not find a record of this.
Speaking on the Snot, Sweat and Tears podcast, O’Leary said: “They actually researched my family for about three months…
“Bear in mind that Wexford is a port town, and my family are all sea-faring folk,” O’Leary said.
They came back and said, ‘There’s just not enough interesting stuff about your family.’”