Julia O'Driscoll was the wife of Richie O'Driscoll, a businessman and the owner of O'Driscolls, a clothing company. Underworld hoped to sign a contract with them and Aidan Connor came up with the novel idea of hosting a table tennis tournament with them to break the ice and of deliberately losing as a sweetener to getting Richie's signature down on paper. Julia watched smiling as her husband's firm won the tournament - just - and joined in when Aidan and Richie discussed contract terms.