After a quarter of a century, the fall-out from the 1995 competition for the state’s second mobile phone licence remains unresolved and subject to serious claims that it involved deceit and corruption.   But a recent attempt by the telecoms businessman Denis O’Brien to change the course of a lawsuit filed by the losing bidder in the wake of the controversial tender has failed. In 2001, the runner-up consortium – Tony Boyle’s Persona Digital and Sigma Wireless – decided to sue the state for significant damages over the awarding of the GSM license to Esat Digifone, a move which helped to…

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