Given Michael Lowry’s regained prominence, there has been a lot of focus on the Moriarty Tribunal. But it is worthwhile to revisit the circumstances surrounding his 2016 conviction for tax offences.
Tax evasion, business connections, and money have cast a shadow over Michael Lowry's career. I should know. He sued me twice for reporting on it.
It feels like “more of the same” as opposed to progressive politics. Yet there are too many domestic issues that need to be addressed and too many international issues looming large.
Time passes. The world moves on. Yet the report of the Moriarty tribunal should not be diminished by time. It still stands as the authoritative version of events, even if it is politically convenient to ignore it.
Tony Boyle continues to fight the awarding of the state’s second mobile phone licence to Denis O’Brien’s Esat. It has been an exhausting and costly battle, but, steeled by the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal, he is not giving up.
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