CONTROVERSIAL businessman Dermot Desmond has accused the Moriarty Tribunal of “losing the plot” over the manner in which it investigated his involvement in the consortium which won the lucrative second mobile phone licence.

BUSINESSMAN Denis O’Brien’s lawyer yesterday challenged groups who failed to win the ’s second mobile phone licence “to put up or shut up”.

FORMER Communications Minister Michael Lowry put the ESB under pressure to allow Esat Digifone masts and antennae for mobile phones onto some of its key sites, the Moriarty Tribunal was told yesterday.