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Desmond finances probed day before contract awarded
THE day before the licence to run the second mobile phone network was awarded an accountant with the Department of Communications was still probing millionaire businessman Dermot Desmond’s finances, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.

Fri, 20 Jun, 2003

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A NOVEL art exhibition that opens in Limerick this weekend will help the disease-ravaged African state of Malawi get a clinic for villagers who have no doctors.

Fri, 23 May, 2003

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CIVIL servants who vetted the consortia seeking the State’s second mobile phone licence in 1995 were very conscious of confidentiality, accountant Billy Riordan told the Moriarty Tribunal yesterday.

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