“It’s very difficult for any mere human, mere mortal, to fight not only the State but the richest man in Ireland. Then in particular, when the two of them are working together against you it is a very, very daunting circumstance.” So said the businessman Tony Boyle when he sat down with Sam Smyth in 2019 for an in-depth interview with The Currency.  Some 30 years have passed since Boyle’s consortium, Persona, came second in the battle for the State’s second mobile phone licence, losing out to the Denis O’Brien-led Esat consortium.  Yet, Boyle and his business partner Michael McGinley…

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