O'Sullivan is a very Irish name :)
I looked googled and foud this blub
http://www.upi.com/about/unipressers.cfm
John O'Sullivan is a distinguished veteran journalist who directs UPI's worldwide news coverage. He has shaped UPI's editorial department to focus on the important and interesting issues facing people around the world, with a mix of breaking news coverage and depth reporting augmented by insightful analysis and commentary.
O'Sullivan, a native of England, has been a special adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and is the founder and co-chairman of the New Atlantic Initiative, an international bipartisan effort to reinvigorate and expand the Atlantic Community of democracies.
O'Sullivan serves as editor-at-large for the National Review magazine. His resume boasts a distinguished career in media, including a position as an editorial consultant to Hollinger International, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, associate editor and columnist for the London Times, editorial page editor of the New York Post, assistant editor as well as political columnist for the London Daily Telegraph, editor of Policy Review magazine, director of studies at the Heritage Foundation, and a fellow at the Harvard University Institute of Politics. He was also a London correspondent for Irish Radio and Television.
He is on the executive advisory board of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation, the Advisory Council of the Social Affairs Unit in London, and the Honorary Board of the Civic Institute in Prague.
O'Sullivan is a graduate of London University and stood for Parliament in the 1970 general election.
He was made a Commander of the British Empire in the 1991 New Year's Honors List.