Hi all,
I happened upon this thread purely by chance (I rarely visit bitcointalk.org much, mainly for Bitcoin exchange reviews the odd time) and was astonished to see Donal O' Mahony's name mentioned! I know Donal through his daughter, and personally I'd be quite surprised if he had anything to do with Bitcoin, although the fact remains that he is
incredibly good with numbers, very intelligent, and I reckon he'd have the necessary skills to develop such a crypto-currency from an investment / understanding markets point of view.
I'll see if I can find out anything more and post back know in a couple of days if I come up with anything, or if he's wearing his Satoshi Nakamoto hat and staying silent.

Kind regards,
- G