Taoiseach Enda Kenny has refused opposition requests to reconvene the Moriarty Tribunal to probe new financial allegations swirling around disgraced TD, Michael Lowry.

THE significance of the newly published taped conversation involving Michael Lowry is that, in it, he flatly contradicts evidence he supplied to the Moriarty Tribunal.

Confirmation from Independent TD Michael Lowry that he paid up to £250,000 (€285,000) to a land agent directly contradicts evidence he supplied to the Moriarty Tribunal.