Desmond fails in bid over Moriarty rulings

Dermot Desmond yesterday failed in his bid to have decisions of the High and Supreme Court over the conduct of the Moriarty Tribunal set aside.

The millionaire businessman sought declarations that the High Court, in 2003, and the Supreme Court, in a 2004 appeal, had been misled by reason of fraud on behalf of the tribunal.

The tribunal was set up to inquire into payments to the late former taoiseach Charles Haughey and to former communications minister, Michael Lowry, now an independent TD.