FORMER Smart Telecom chief executive Oisin Fanning is opposing a bid by a bank to take possession of his home because of an alleged failure to keep up payments on an €8 million loan, the High Court heard yesterday.

A NUMBER of legal actions involving former Smart Telecom chief executive Oisín Fanning arising from the October 2006 buyout of Smart by Smart YuRoE Broadband — a company controlled by businessman Brendan Murtagh — have come before the Commercial Court.

FORMER Smart Telecom boss Oisin Fanning is not a credible person to challenge the October 2006 buyout of the company by businessman Brendan Murtagh, the High Court was told yesterday, as Mr Fanning himself both voted for and benefited from the deal.