Walter Hobbs recalls vividly being called by Prime Time on the afternoon of April 23, 2015, at the height of the controversy into the sale of Siteserv to the businessman Denis O’Brien. It was a frenzied time with various accusations being made in the Dail in relation to the sale of Siteserv, a utilities and infrastructure business, to O’Brien for €45 million in 2012. Some of the allegations would later prove to be false. Siteserv’s main creditor, the state-owned bank IBRC, formerly Anglo Irish Bank, wrote off more than €100 million of borrowings owed by the distressed business after the…

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