Independent TD Michael Lowry will have to pay his own legal costs after he was added to a court case taken by a company that alleged he took corrupt payments when he was a government minister.

A High Court judge has refused to allow an English company to fund a legal action against the State, businessman Denis O’Brien, and former government minister Michael Lowry.

A High Court judge has refused to allow an English company to fund a legal action against the State, businessman Denis O'Brien and former Government Minister Michael Lowry.

A law concerning third party funding of legal cases in Ireland comes from an era when people thought the earth was the centre of the universe, witches were burned at the stake, and the rule of law paled in comparison to the rule of the sword, the High Court has heard.

A UK litigation funding company is prepared to back a damages action being brought by one of the unsuccessful bidders for Ireland’s second mobile-phone licence, the High Court has heard.

The estate of former Taoiseach, Charles Haughey has received €2.5m or 65% less than it was claiming in third-party legal costs from the Moriarty Tribunal.

The Chief State Solicitors Office is challenging an amendment by businessman, Declan Ganley, to include the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal in his case against the State and Denis O’Brien over the second mobile phone licence.

The Declan Ganley-backed Switzerland-based asset management firm, St Columbanus International Advisors Ltd, has applied for voluntary strike off from the Companies Registration Office after three years of trading.

The Moriarty Tribunal has made one of its highest payments yet of €536,876.94 to cover the costs of Danish telecoms expert, Michael Andersen, the Irish Examiner has learnt.

Businessman Denis O’Brien has succeeded in his attempt to join the State as a defendant in the case taken by Persona over the awarding of the mobile phone licence to Esat.

The businessman Declan Ganley could be exposed to a bill running into millions of euro if he loses in his legal action against the State and Denis O’Brien over the awarding of the second mobile phone licence to Esat Digifone.

Businessman Declan Ganley’s ability to pay the costs of a legal action over the issuing of the State’s second mobile phone licence means two companies associated with him do not need to put up money in advance in case they lose the action, a High Court judge ruled.

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien has alleged before the High Court that Declan Ganley has acted “maliciously” and out of “spite” in bringing proceedings against him over the award of the State’s second mobile phone licence to Esat Digifone.

Lawyers for Denis O’Brien are looking for security of costs ahead of a High Court battle over the awarding of the second mobile phone license to Esat in the 1990s.

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien has won a battle with Revenue that saves him paying nearly €57m in capital gains tax.

One of Ireland’s richest men, billionaire telecoms and media tycoon Denis O’Brien, has avoided a €57m tax bill over a lucrative share trade.

An application by billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien to be added, as a defendant, to a multi-million-euro legal action against the State, will be heard in the High Court on Oct 9.

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Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien is fighting a bid by Revenue to overturn a decision that he was not liable to pay nearly €57m in tax in Ireland around the same time he started living in Portugal.

The Cork County Board executive last night met to ratify the footballers and hurlers’ new three-year sponsorship deal.

Businessman Denis O’Brien told the High Court yesterday he pays his taxes in Ireland and in all countries he and his company Digicel are connected with.

Denis O’Brien told the High Court it was not true the final report of the Moriarty Tribunal was devastating for him.

A Supreme Court judge has said it will be a “disgrace to the nation and the State” if it is proven that there was corruption at the highest level of Government in the awarding of a mobile phone licence to Esat Digifone.

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien wrote a strongly-worded critical and cynical letter to Lucinda Creighton complaining about the European affairs minister’s disapproval of his appearance at the global economic forum.

The defeated mobile phone licence bidders may not get the payout they expect, writes investigative correspondent Conor Ryan

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for unsuccessful bidders to challenge the awarding of the second mobile telephone licence to Esat Digifone in May 1996.

Seventeen years after it was awarded, the second mobile phone licence, the most lucrative ever awarded by the State, is still embroiled in controversy, as competitors for the licence get their day in court, writes Michael Clifford

The Communications Minister has said that the State will fully defend itself against any claim made against the Exchequer over the awarding of the country's second mobile phone licence.

Two multimillion euro legal actions over the awarding of the State's second mobile phone license to Esat Digifone in 1995 will now go ahead.

The Supreme Court has reserved judgment on appeals by two unsuccessful bidders for the State’s second mobile phone licence aimed at allowing them proceed with actions challenging the manner in which the licence was allocated in 1995 to Esat Digifone.

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien should not be invited to future government-sponsored economic fora, Europe Minister Lucinda Creighton has said.

The reaction to the seismic Mahon Report focussed on the villains of the piece — Ahern, Flynn, Lawlor, Burke and O’Callaghan — and their supporting cast.

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter launched a scathing attack on Micheál Martin over his response to the Moriarty Tribunal report claiming the Fianna Fáil leader had engaged in “nauseating hypocrisy”.

PAT RABBITTE has defended the cabinet that signed off on the state’s second mobile phone licence, saying ministers could not have second guessed the project team’s decision on the winning bid.

MICHAEL LOWRY has launched an all-out assault on the Moriarty Tribunal, describing it as a “witch hunt” that wrongly found he helped Denis O’Brien to win the second mobile phone licence.

Former Minister Michael Lowry has tonight launched a scathing attack on the report of the Moriarty Tribunal today, calling it a "show trial".

MINISTERS must bear collective cabinet responsibility and duty of government, so why are Enda Kenny, Michael Noonan, Richard Burton and Brendan Howlin not offering their resignation?

THE Supreme Court is expected to be asked next May to grant a priority hearing of appeals which will determine if two unsuccessful bidders for the state’s second mobile phone licence can proceed with actions challenging the manner in which the licence was allocated in 1995 to Esat Digifone.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has claimed his shamed former Cabinet colleague Michael Lowry would quit politics in “an ideal world”.